Leviticus 27:19

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Leviticus 27:19 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 he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And if redeeming he will redeem the field, the one consecrating it, then he shall add a fifth of the silver of your valuation upon it, and it will stand to him.

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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And if the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it shall belong to him.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And if the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it shall belong to him.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And if he that sanctified the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And if he that sanctified the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And if he that dedicateth it, will redeeme the fielde, then he shall put the fift parte of the price, that thou esteemedst it at, thereunto, and it shall remaine his.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And if he that had vowed, will redeem his field, he shall add the fifth part of the money of the estimation, and shall possess it.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    `And if he really redeem the field -- he who is sanctifying it -- then he hath added a fifth of the money of thy valuation to it, and it hath been established to him;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And if he really redeems the field—he who is sanctifying it—then he has added a fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it has been established to him;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    If the man who set apart the field wishes to redeem it, then he must add a fifth to the valuation, and it will belong to him.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And if redeeming he will redeem the field, the one consecrating it, then he shall add a fifth of the silver of your valuation upon it, and it will stand to him.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And if he that hallowed the field will in any wise redeem it, he shall add the fifth of the money of thy valuation unto it, and it shall be assured to him;
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation to it, and it shall be assured to him.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    But if you want to buy your field back, you have to add one-fifth to its value in payment. Then it will belong to you again.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And if the man who has given the field has a desire to get it back, let him give a fifth more than the price at which it was valued and it will be his.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And if he that sanctified the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy valuation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.

Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).

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עֶרְכְּךָ֛
ʻêrek
H6187
“row · your”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Construct
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6186

TWOT: 1694a

order, row, estimate, things that are set in order, layer, pile - order, row - estimate, valuation
  1. וְאִם ʼim H518 “and · if” Conjunction + Conjunction
  2. גָּאֹ֤ל gâʼal H1350 “to redeem” Verb, Qal, Infinitive Absolute
  3. יִגְאַל֙ gâʼal H1350 “to redeem” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  4. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  5. הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה sâdeh H7704 “the · field” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  6. הַמַּקְדִּ֖ישׁ qâdash H6942 “the · consecrating” Particle, Definite Article + Verb, Hiphil, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  7. אֹת֑וֹ ʼêth H853 “- · him” Particle, Direct Object + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  8. וְ֠יָסַף yâçaph H3254 “and · to add” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  9. חֲמִשִׁ֧ית chămîyshîy H2549 “fifth of” Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  10. כֶּֽסֶף keçeph H3701 “silver of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  11. עָלָ֖יו ʻal H5921 “upon · him” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  12. וְקָ֥ם qûwm H6965 “and · to rise” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

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 →

14
words
11
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

עֶרְכְּךָ֛ row H6187 occurs in 29 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 5 verbs
  • 3 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 2 prepositions
  • 1 conjunction
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • גָּאֹ֤ל Qal · Infinitive Absolute
  • יִגְאַל֙ Qal · Imperfect
  • הַמַּקְדִּ֖ישׁ Hiphil · Participle Active
  • וְ֠יָסַף Qal · Sequential Perfect
  • וְקָ֥ם Qal · Sequential Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • גָּאֹ֤ל to redeem H1350 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 30 words from the Hebrew and 27 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 14 Hebrew tokens and 20 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

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Topical passages linked to Leviticus 27:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Leviticus 27:13 But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Leviticus 27:19 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאִם גָּאֹ֤ל יִגְאַל֙ אֶת הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה הַמַּקְדִּ֖ישׁ אֹת֑וֹ וְ֠יָסַף חֲמִשִׁ֧ית כֶּֽסֶף עֶרְכְּךָ֛ עָלָ֖יו וְקָ֥ם לֽוֹ

If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 27:19 Septuagint · lemma form

ἐάν δέ λυτρόω ὁ ἀγρός ὁ ἁγιάζω αὐτός προςτίθημι ὁ ἐπίπεμπτος ὁ ἀργύριον πρός ὁ τιμή αὐτός καί εἰμί αὐτός

And if he that sanctified the field would redeem it, he shall add to its value the fifth part of the money, and it shall be his.

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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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.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְאִם מִפְרַק יִפְרוֹק יָת חַקְלָא דְאַקְדֵשׁ יָתֵהּ וְיוֹסֵף חוֹמֶשׁ כְּסַף פֻּרְסָנֵהּ עֲלוֹהִי וִיקוּם לֵהּ

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    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)
    וְאִין מִפְרוֹק יִפְרוֹק יַת חַקְלָא דֵין דְאַקְדֵישׁ יָתֵיהּ וְיוֹסִיף חוֹמֶשׁ כְּסַף עֲלוֹיֵיהּ עֲלוֹי וִיקוּם לֵיהּ

    And if he would redeem the field that he had consecrated, let him add one fifth of the money upon its valued price, and it shall be confirmed to him.

    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 27:19 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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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(19) And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it.—Better, and if he wishes to redeem the field that sanctified it. (See Lev_27:13.) This is sure to be the case, since the low value fixed per acre was designed that the field should be redeemed by him. According to the legislation during the second Temple, the rule here included his wife and his heirs, any one of whom had the right to redeem it. But the family in redeeming it had, as usual, to add one-fifth over and above the valuation price, for the reason already stated. (See Lev_27:13; Lev_27:15.)

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 he will not redeem the field,.... He that sanctified it, does not care to give for it the settled price of the fifth part besides, but chooses it should be disposed of for the uses he devoted it to:

or if he have sold the field to another man; that is, either the original owner having bought it and sold it again, or rather the priest, the treasurer, as Jarchi, who had the disposal of it, for the uses and purposes for which it was devoted, when sold by him:

it shall not be redeemed any more; it was not in the power of him that sanctified it to make a purchase of it again; the buyer of it might not sell it to him again, for otherwise, by that means, he might come at it cheaper than the law directs; besides, there is another reason for it, which is suggested in Lev 27:21.

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

Scofield Reference Notes

C. I. Scofield

redeemed

Heb. "goel," Redemp. (Kinsman type). (See Scofield "Isa 59:20").

The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 edition), notes by C. I. Scofield — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

it cannot be redeemed any more

This can be stated in active form. AT: "he can no longer buy it back" (See: Active or Passive)

If he does not redeem the field

The time for redeeming the field can be stated clearly. AT: If he does not redeem the field before the year of Jubilee" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

in the year of Jubilee

"in the year of restoration" or "the year for you to return land and free slaves." This was a year when the Jews had to return land to its original owners and set slaves free See how you translated it in Leviticus 25:13

that has been completely given to Yahweh

This can be stated in active form. AT: "that someone has completely given to Yahweh" (See: Active or Passive)

translationWords

redeem

holy

gift

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)

ואם גאל יגאל AND IF HE WILL IN ANY WAY REDEEM IT “he” means, the man who dedicated it; then he shall add a fifth part to this fixed price (not a fifth of the fifty shekels, but a fifth of the value determined by this calculation is to be added to that value).

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.

Lesson kit

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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 14 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻêrek (“row”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “row” (ʻêrek) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Exodus 40:4, which shares the word «row», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “to redeem” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  5. «גָּאֹ֤ל» is a Qal Infinitive Absolute verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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