What Does Leviticus 27:17 Mean in the King James?
If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.
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 a field is set apart from the Jubilee year, the release point becomes the start of its full valuation.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks now of worth held within release: what is set apart at the point of Jubilee receives its measure from the beginning of return, and that valuation stands. Release resets a thing’s relation to ownership without making its worth vanish.
THE ROOT
יַקְדִּישׁ
yaqdîsh from qadash
GROWS FROM
ק־ד־שׁ
Set apart; consecrate.
“sanctify” in this verse is yaqdîsh from qadash. The same seed names the set-apart one and the set-apart place, so sanctifying the field marks its distinct relation to the release year. Its value nevertheless stands by the stated measure.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: Set apart; consecrated.
קָדוֹשׁ
The field is given a set-apart status at the point when release resets possession.
miqdash: Sanctuary; set-apart place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
The root can describe both a set-apart thing and a set-apart place, showing that designation changes a thing’s relation without erasing its substance.
יָקוּם
yaqum
GROWS FROM
ק־ו־ם
Rise, stand, be established.
“stand” in this verse is yaqum. The estimate does not merely get stated; it stands. This root gives the valuation the sense of something established from the Jubilee starting point.
ALSO GROWS
qum: Rise; stand.
קוּם
This is the basic action behind the verse’s statement that the valuation stands.
heqim: Raise; establish.
הֵקִים
The causative form carries the sense of making something stand, echoing the estimate that remains established.
THE PATTERN
The Jubilee release point resets possession and gives what is set apart a clear measure.
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.But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them.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, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.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 q-d-sh root appears as hallow here and sanctify in Leviticus 27:17. Jubilee’s liberty is itself set apart, and the field’s measure begins at that marked point of return.
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