anointing-portion R.V. mg. portion. The Heb. root which means to anoint is found in Aramaic and Assyrian in the sense to measure. The word here and the similar word in Numbers 18:8 (by reason of the anointing, -for a portion," R.V. mg.) probably indicate an assigned or -measured portion," without excluding a play on the other sense of the root.

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