Leviticus 16:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But the goat, on which the lot fell for Azazel, shall be set alive before Jehovah, to make atonement for him, to send him away for Azazel into the wilderness.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהַשָּׂעִ֗יר אֲשֶׁר֩ עָלָ֨ה עָלָ֤יו הַגּוֹרָל֙ לַעֲזָאזֵ֔ל יָֽעֳמַד־חַ֛י לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה לְכַפֵּ֣ר עָלָ֑יו לְשַׁלַּ֥ח אֹת֛וֹ לַעֲזָאזֵ֖ל הַמִּדְבָּֽרָה׃

Transliteration

wə-ha-śśāʿîr ʾăšer ʿālâ ʿālāyw ha-gôrāl la-ʿăzāʾzēl yāʿŏmad-ḥay lipnê YHWH lə-kappēr ʿālāyw lə-šallaḥ ʾōtô la-ʿăzāʾzēl ha-midbārâ

Grammar Details

• *wə-ha-śśāʿîr*: conjunction + definite article + noun, masculine singular - and the male goat
• *ʾăšer*: relative particle - which
• *ʿālâ*: Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - went up
• *ʿālāyw*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - upon it/him
• *ha-gôrāl*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the lot
• *la-ʿăzāʾzēl*: preposition + proper noun - for/to Azazel
• *yāʿŏmad*: Hophal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he shall be made to stand
• *ḥay*: adjective, masculine singular - living, alive
• *lipnê*: preposition with construct form - before
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
• *lə-kappēr*: preposition + Piel infinitive construct - to make atonement
• *lə-šallaḥ*: preposition + Piel infinitive construct - to send away
• *ʾōtô*: direct object marker with 3rd masculine singular suffix - him
• *ha-midbārâ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular + directional heh - to the wilderness

Word Meanings

• *śāʿîr*: male goat, he-goat
• *ʿălâ*: went up, rose, came up
• *gôrāl*: lot, portion, destiny
• *ʿăzāʾzēl*: Azazel (possibly scapegoat, name of a demon, or a place designation)
• *yāʿŏmad*: be made to stand, be presented, be stationed
• *ḥay*: alive, living, active
• *kappēr*: make atonement, cover, purge
• *šallaḥ*: send away, let go, dismiss
• *midbārâ*: to the wilderness, to the desert, to the uncultivated land

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 2:2 : 2 and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
• 1 John 3:16 : 16 Hereby {G5129} know we love, {G2316} because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
• Lev 14:7 : 7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let go the living bird into the open field.
• Lev 16:21-22 : 21 and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a man that is in readiness into the wilderness: 22 and the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a solitary land: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
• Isa 53:4-9 : 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who [among them] considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke [was due]? 9 And they made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities.
• Rom 3:25 : 25 whom God set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;
• Rom 4:25 : 25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
• 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 {G1063} Him who knew no sin he made [to be] sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
• Heb 7:26-27 : 26 For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 27 who {G2192} needeth not {G2596} daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the [sins] of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.
• Heb 9:23-24 : 23 It was necessary therefore that {G3303} the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ entered {G1525} not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us: