Leviticus 25:26

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;

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גְאֻלָּתֽוֹ

gᵉʼullâh

H1353

“redemption · his”

Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 14× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Leviticus 25:24

Full BDB Definition

Origin: pass. participle of H1350

TWOT: 300b

kindred, redemption, right of redemption, price of redemption - kin, kindred - redemption - right of redemption - price of redemption, redemption price

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

11: words
10: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is גְאֻלָּתֽוֹ redemption H1353 — appearing just 14 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

גְאֻלָּתֽוֹ redemption H1353 occurs in 13 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

4 verbs
4 nouns
1 preposition
1 conjunction
1 particle

Verb forms

יִֽהְיֶה Qal · Imperfect
גֹּאֵ֑ל Qal · Participle Active
וְהִשִּׂ֣יגָה Hiphil · Sequential Perfect
וּמָצָ֖א Qal · Sequential Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 18 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Leviticus 25:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Leviticus 5:7 "'If he can't afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Leviticus 25:26 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאִ֕ישׁ כִּ֛י לֹ֥א יִֽהְיֶה לּ֖וֹ גֹּאֵ֑ל וְהִשִּׂ֣יגָה יָד֔וֹ וּמָצָ֖א כְּדֵ֥י גְאֻלָּתֽוֹ

If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;

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Greek LXX Leviticus 25:26 Septuagint · lemma form

ἐάν δέ μή εἰμί τις ὁ ἀγχιστεύω καί εὐπορέω ὁ χείρ καί εὑρίσκω αὐτός ὁ ἱκανός λύτρον αὐτός

And if one have no near kinsman, and he prosper with his hand, and he find sufficient money, even his ransom;

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּגְבַר אֲרֵי לָא יְהֵי לֵהּ פָּרִיק וְתַדְבֵּק יְדֵהּ וְיַשְׁכַּח כְּמִסַת פֻּרְקָנֵהּ

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Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּגְבַר אֲרוּם לָא יְהֵי לֵיהּ מַאן דְחָמֵי לְמִפְרוֹק זְבִינוֹהִי וּתְאַרַע יְדֵיהּ וְיִשְׁכַּח הֵי כְמֵיסַת פּוּרְקָנֵיהּ

But if a man have no one who is qualified to redeem that which he hath sold, and it befall to his own hand to find the price of its redemption,

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Leviticus 25:26 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Hebrew, his hand hath gotten.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(26) And if the man have none to redeem it.—In case, however, he has either no nearest of kin, or if his nearest of kin is himself too poor to perform this duty, which is incumbent upon him, “and himself be able to redeem it,” that is, after he was compelled, by stress of poverty, to sell the property he has become prosperous, so as to be able to redeem it himself; though not distinctly expressed, it is implied that under these altered circumstances he is obliged to redeem his patrimony himself. According to the canonical law, however, he must not borrow money to redeem it.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And if the man have none to redeem it,.... That is, none of kin that was able or willing to redeem it; otherwise no doubt there were persons in the land able to do it at any time, but none he was in connection with, or from whom he could expect such a favour:

and himself be able to redeem it; or if his hand has got, and he has found a sufficiency for his redemption, as the Targum of Jonathan; not that he has found anything that was lost, as Chaskuni glosses it, but by one providence or another, by the blessing of God on his trade and business, is become rich, and it is in the power of his hand to redeem the possession he had sold, he might do it; but, as the same writer observes, he might not borrow and redeem, but must do it with what he had got of his own since the time of sale, and which is also the sense of others (d).

(d) Misn. Eracin, c. 9. 1. Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

the land was sold

This can be stated in active form. AT: "he sold the land" (See: Active or Passive)

repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it

This can be made explicit. AT: "repay to the purchaser who bought it the money the purchaser would have made" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

the year of Jubilee

"the year of restoration" or "the year to return land." See how you translated it in Leviticus 25:10.

the land will be returned

This can be stated in active form. AT: "the one who had bought it will return the land" (See: Active or Passive)

will return to his property

"will go back to his land"

translationWords

prosper

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Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

ואיש כי לא יהיה לו גואל [AND] IF [A MAN] HAVE NONE TO REDEEM IT — But does there exist anyone in Israel who has none to redeem his property (who has no relative at all)? But the meaning is: a relative who is able (possesses the means) to redeem that which he has sold (Sifra, Behar, Chapter 5 2; cf. Kiddushin 21a).

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is gᵉʼullâh (“redemption”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “redemption” (gᵉʼullâh) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Leviticus 25:24, which shares the word «redemption», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«יִֽהְיֶה» is a Qal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 18 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 20 words in this verse.
10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.