Leviticus 25:51

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Leviticus 25:51 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    If still many in the years, to their mouth he shall pay back his redemption from the silver of his purchase.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    If there be yet many years, according unto them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    If there be yet many years, according unto them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    If there be many yeeres behind, according to them he shall giue againe for his deliuerance, of the money that he was bought for.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    If there be many years that remain until the jubilee, according to them shall he also repay the price.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    `If yet many years, according to them he giveth back his redemption `money', from the money of his purchase.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    If many years still [remain], he gives back his redemption [money] according to them, from the money of his purchase.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    If there are still many years until the year of Jubilee, he must pay back as the price for his redemption an amount of money that is in proportion to the number of those years.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    If still many in the years, to their mouth he shall pay back his redemption from the silver of his purchase.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    If there are yet many years, according unto them shall he return his redemption [money] out of the money that he was bought for;
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    If there shall be yet many years behind, according to them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    If there are many years left, they must pay a larger percentage of the purchase price.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    If there is still a long time, he will give back, on account of it, a part of the price which was given for him.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    If there be yet many years, according unto them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

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גְּאֻלָּת֔וֹ
gᵉʼullâh
H1353
“redemption · his”
Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
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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
  1. אִם ʼim H518 “if” Conjunction
  2. ע֥וֹד ʻôwd H5750 “still” Adverb
  3. רַבּ֖וֹת rab H7227 “many” Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
  4. בַּשָּׁנִ֑ים shâneh H8141 “in/at the · years” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
  5. לְפִיהֶן֙ peh H6310 “to/for · mouth · their” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural
  6. יָשִׁ֣יב shûwb H7725 “to return” Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  7. מִכֶּ֖סֶף keçeph H3701 “from · silver of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  8. מִקְנָתֽוֹ miqnâh H4736 “purchase · his” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

About this verse

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9
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9
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

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

Shared distinctive vocabulary

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

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 5 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 1 conjunction
  • 1 adverb

Verb forms

  • יָשִׁ֣יב Hiphil · Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 27 words from the Hebrew and 23 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Leviticus 25:51 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אִם ע֥וֹד רַבּ֖וֹת בַּשָּׁנִ֑ים לְפִיהֶן֙ יָשִׁ֣יב גְּאֻלָּת֔וֹ מִכֶּ֖סֶף מִקְנָתֽוֹ

If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 25:51 Septuagint · lemma form

ἐάν δέ τις πολύς ὁ ἔτος εἰμί πρός οὗτος ἀποδίδωμι ὁ λύτρον αὐτός ἀπό ὁ ἀργύριον ὁ πρᾶσις αὐτός

And if any have a greater number of years than enough, according to these he shall pay his ransom out of his purchase-money.

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)

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  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    אִם עוֹד סְגִיוּת בִּשְׁנַיָא לְפוּמְהֵן יָתֵב פֻּרְקָנֵהּ מִכְּסַף זְבִינוֹהִי

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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.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    אִין עַד כְּדוּן אִית סַגִי בִּשְׁנַיָא לְפוּם סְמוּכְהוֹן יָתִיב פּוּרְקָנֵיהּ מִכְּסַף זְבִינוֹי

    If yet there be many years, according to their number he shall give for his redemption of the money that he was bought for.

    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 25:51 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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John Gill's Exposition

If there be yet many years behind,.... To the year of jubilee, and more than he had served:

according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption, out of the money that he was bought for; suppose, for instance, when a man sold himself, there were twenty years to the year of jubilee, and he sold himself for twenty pieces of money, gold or silver, be the value what it will; and when he comes to treat with his master about his redemption, or a relation for him, and he has served just as many years as there are to the year of jubilee, ten years, then his master must be paid for the price of his redemption ten pieces of money; but if he has served but five years, and there are fifteen to come, he must give him fifteen pieces; and so in proportion, be the years more or fewer, as follows.

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

he must pay back

"the Israelite slave must pay back"

translationWords

year

redeem

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

אם עוד רבות בשנים IF THERE BE YET MANY YEARS until the Jubilee.

לפיהן ACCORDING TO THEM [HE SHALL RESTORE THE PRICE OF HIS REDEMPTION] — all exactly as I have explained above.

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 9 words (9 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

  1. What does “redemption” (gᵉʼullâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Leviticus 25:24, which shares the word «redemption», read alongside this verse?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. «יָשִׁ֣יב» is a Hiphil Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how John Gill's Exposition and unfoldingWord translationNotes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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