The Definition of the word Liver

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.