Liver

(Heb. kabhed, “heavy;” hence the liver, as being the heaviest of the viscera, Ex. 29:13, 22; Lev. 3:4, 1, 10, 15) was burnt upon the altar, and not used as sacrificial food. In Ezek. 21:21 there is allusion, in the statement that the king of Babylon “looked upon the liver,” to one of the most ancient of all modes of divination. The first recorded instance of divination (q.v.) is that of the teraphim of Laban. By the teraphim the LXX. and Josephus understood “the liver of goats.” By the “caul above the liver,” in Lev. 4:9; 7:4, etc., some understand the great lobe of the liver itself.

LIVER. The expression "the caul above the liver," so frequently occurring in the Pentateuch, Ex 29:13, Josh 11:22; Lev 3:4, 1 Kgs 16:10, 2 Sam 20:15; Ruth 4:9; Acts 7:4; Lev 8:16; Lev 9:10, etc., means one of the lobes of the liver, which was to be burned on the altar, and not eaten as sacrificial food.

LIVER. The expression "the caul above the liver," so frequently occurring in the Pentateuch, Ex 29:13, Josh 11:22; Lev 3:4, 1 Kgs 16:10, 2 Sam 20:15; Ruth 4:9; Acts 7:4; Lev 8:16; Lev 9:10, etc., means one of the lobes of the liver, which was to be burned on the altar, and not eaten as sacrificial food.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. One who, or that which, lives. And try if life be worth the liver's care. Prior.

2. A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.

3. One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver. Fast liver, one who lives in an extravagant and dissipated way. -- Free liver, Good liver, one given to the pleasures of the table. -- Loose liver, a person who lives a somewhat dissolute life.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.