What Does Leviticus 25:16 Mean in the King James?
According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
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 price follows the harvests still able to come in, so the years of future yield are part of what is being bought.
THE MEANING
Value here follows the yield that can still come in. More years of produce raise the price; fewer years lower it. What is measured is a finite span of future harvests, with each year changing the value.
THE ROOT
תְּבוּאֹת
tevu'ot
GROWS FROM
בוא
b-w-ʾ
Come, enter.
The word translated “fruits” is tevu’ot, produce or yield, from the root בוא (b-w-ʾ), “come, enter.” The price follows what can still come in through the remaining years: the verse counts time by its harvests.
ALSO GROWS
bo': To come or enter.
בּוֹא
It shows the movement contained in the produce word: the harvest is what comes in.
mavo: Entrance or coming in.
מָבוֹא
This related form makes the shared image concrete: yield is the incoming result of the land’s remaining seasons.
THE PATTERN
Value follows the fruit that can still come through the seasons remaining.
According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: 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.Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.THE THREAD
According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:This verse names the measure of the transaction: years after the jubilee and years of produce. Its word for produce is תְּבוּאֹת (tevu’ot), from בוא (b-w-ʾ), “come in,” so the price follows how many harvests can still come in.
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