What Does Leviticus 25:9 Mean?
Then on the tenth day of the seventh month you shall make the ram's horn blast pass through. On the day of covering you shall make the blast pass through all your land.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
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 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.
“make the blast pass through” 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 you shall set apart the fiftieth year, and proclaim a free flowing through all the land to all who settle in it. It shall be a ram's horn year for you, and you shall turn back each to his holding, and each to his family you shall turn back.The breath of the Lord LORD is upon me, for the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the bowed ones; he has sent me to bind up the broken of heart, to proclaim flowing freedom to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are chained.The breath of the LORD is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the emptied. He has sent me to heal the shattered in heart, to herald release to the captives, and the return of sight for the blind, to send the crushed away into release.THE THREAD
For on that day the priest makes a covering for you, to cleanse you, so that you may be clean from all your shortcomings 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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