What Does Leviticus 25:3 Mean in the King James?
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
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 root behind “sow” also names seed and offspring, so planting already carries the shape of a future yield.
THE MEANING
You are inside a rhythm where cultivation and yield belong together: seed enters the ground, the vineyard is tended, and its fruit is gathered in. What is planted now belongs to a living sequence that reaches toward a later harvest.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that what disappears into the ground is simply lost gives way to a deeper pattern: sowing begins a yield that can later be gathered.
THE ROOT
תִּזְרַע
tizraʿ
GROWS FROM
ז־ר־ע
z-r-ʿ
To sow or scatter seed.
“sow” in this verse is tizraʿ. The same root names both the act of sowing and זֶרַע (zeraʿ), “seed” or “offspring.” The verse’s planting carries a future within it: the seed is also the beginning of what will come after.
ALSO GROWS
zeraʿ: Seed; offspring.
זֶרַע
The word links what is planted in the field with the next generation of life.
zeriʿah: Sowing; the act of planting seed.
זְרִיעָה
This noun from the same root keeps the act of sowing tied to the seed it sets in motion.
וְאָסַפְתָּ
veʾasaphta
GROWS FROM
א־ס־ף
ʾ-s-p
To gather or collect.
“gather in” in this verse is veʾasaphta. The verb for gathering the fruit belongs to a root that also names an ingathering and an assembly. The harvest is not only growth in the field; it is what gets gathered together.
ALSO GROWS
asif: Ingathering; harvest.
אָסִיף
This branch names the harvest season as a gathering, echoing the collected fruit in the verse.
asefah: Assembly; gathering.
אֲסֵפָה
The same root can gather people as well as produce, extending the verse’s image from fruit collected to things brought together.
THE PATTERN
What is sown unfolds toward a later gathering.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.THE THREAD
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.“Seedtime” translates Hebrew זֶרַע (zeraʿ), “seed,” from the same ז־ר־ע root as “sow” in this verse. Genesis holds seedtime and harvest together in one recurring rhythm, opening the planting here toward its eventual gathering.
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