What Does Leviticus 25:12 Mean in the King James?
For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The field’s “increase” is what comes in from the ground, making Jubilee provision something received and set apart.
THE MEANING
The Jubilee is set apart, and the field’s yield is food to be eaten. The word for “increase” carries the sense of what comes in: provision arrives as what the ground brings forth. This speaks now wherever a pause in ordinary control reveals that nourishment is already arriving.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that only what I personally produce or secure can sustain me gives way here: the field’s yield itself becomes food.
THE ROOT
תְּבוּאָה
tevu’ah
GROWS FROM
בוא
b-w-ʾ
To come, enter, or arrive.
English “increase” can sound like an abstract rise in quantity, but תְּבוּאָה (tevu’ah) names produce or yield and grows from the root בוא (bo), “to come, enter.” The field’s provision is what comes in from the ground, received as food in the Jubilee year.
ALSO GROWS
bo: To come or enter.
בּוֹא
The root gives the yield its sense of what comes forth or arrives.
mavo: Entrance or entry.
מָבוֹא
This branch preserves the root’s movement of coming in, echoing the arrival of the field’s produce.
קֹדֶשׁ
qodesh
GROWS FROM
קדשׁ
q-d-sh
To set apart, make distinct, or consecrate.
“holy” in this verse is qodesh. The Jubilee year is marked as set apart, and that status shapes how its yield is received. The same root names both what is set apart and the sanctuary set apart as a place, so sacredness here reaches into the field’s food.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: Set apart; consecrated.
קָדוֹשׁ
It shares the root’s sense of being marked out as distinct, as the Jubilee year is here.
miqdash: Sanctuary; a set-apart place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
The sanctuary and the Jubilee share the language of being set apart, while this verse carries that quality into the field’s yield.
THE PATTERN
When a season loosens the usual claims on production, the ground’s yield becomes direct provision beyond what one person stores or secures.
But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?THE THREAD
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.The same word, “jubile,” names the year in both verses. Here, liberty and return define that year; verse 12 shows the field’s yield as provision within that release.
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