What Does Leviticus 25:9 Mean in the King James?
Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
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 day of covering sends a sound across the whole land.
THE MEANING
The trumpet sounds on the day of covering, and its signal passes through the whole land. The verse holds covering and public proclamation together: the jubilee sound reaches beyond one person or place.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that covering is only private and silent: here, the day of covering is joined to a proclamation carried across the land.
THE ROOT
כִּפֻּרִים
kippurim
GROWS FROM
כפר
kaphar
Cover, cover over; by extension, make atonement.
The word translated “atonement” belongs to the root כפר (kaphar), “cover.” The verse places this covering alongside a trumpet blast that travels through the land, joining covering with a public signal.
ALSO GROWS
kapporet: Cover of the ark
כַּפֹּרֶת
The same root names a covering over the ark, giving “covering” a concrete form in the biblical word family.
kofer: Ransom or covering payment
כֹּפֶר
This branch connects covering with a payment that answers for a liability, adding a restorative shade to the word family.
תַּעֲבִירוּ
ta'aviru
GROWS FROM
עבר
avar
Pass across, cross over.
“cause the trumpet to sound” in this verse is ta'aviru. The Hebrew verb literally means “cause to pass.” It appears again in the instruction to make the trumpet sound throughout the land, so the Hebrew pictures the signal crossing the land as well as being heard.
ALSO GROWS
ever: Across, beyond
עֵבֶר
This noun carries the root’s sense of what lies across or beyond, echoing the sound’s reach through the land.
ma'avar: Passage or crossing
מַעֲבָר
This branch names a route across, illuminating the verse’s image of the trumpet’s signal passing from place to place.
THE PATTERN
Release is proclaimed aloud so its reach extends across the people and the land.
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 Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,THE THREAD
For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.The Hebrew verb כִּפֶּר (kipper, cover or make atonement) shares the root כפר (kaphar, cover) with כִּפֻּרִים (kippurim) in this verse. Leviticus 16:30 names covering as cleansing; Leviticus 25:9 sets the trumpet’s land-wide sound on that same day.
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