What Does Leviticus 25:26 Mean in the King James?
And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
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
When no kinsman can reclaim it, the text still leaves restoration within reach of the owner’s own hand.
THE MEANING
When no one else can reclaim what has passed from your possession, the possibility of recovery remains open. Your own hand may come into enough to reclaim it. The verse places another path within reach when an outside redeemer is absent.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that if no one else can redeem what you have lost, it is gone for good.
THE ROOT
גְּאֻלָּתוֹ
ge'ullato
GROWS FROM
גאל
gā'al
To reclaim as kin, to recover what has passed out of the family’s possession by exercising a kinship claim.
“redeem” in this verse is ge'ullato. The word carries the sense of reclaiming through kinship, not merely paying a price. Here, when no kinsman is available, the owner’s own hand can meet the same act of reclamation: the claim does not vanish with the helper.
ALSO GROWS
go'el: A kinsman who reclaims what has been lost or sold.
גֹּאֵל
This branch shows that redemption is an act of relationship and responsibility; in this verse, the owner can take up that role himself.
ge'ullah: Redemption or the reclaiming of what belongs to the family.
גְּאֻלָּה
This branch names the recovery itself, showing that the man’s ability opens a path for what has passed from his possession to return.
THE PATTERN
Redemption is an active reclaiming that opens a path from loss or bondage into restored belonging.
And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.THE THREAD
If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.The preceding verse places the reclaiming in a kinsman’s hands; this verse shifts it to the person whose property is sold. Both use גָּאַל (ga’al), “to reclaim as kin,” so the second path is the same kind of recovery answered by the owner’s own capacity.
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