What Does Leviticus 27:17 Mean?
If he sets apart his field from the year of the jubilee, according to your arranged worth it stands.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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
If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.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.
“sets apart” 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 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.But if he gives a gift of his holding to one of his servants, it is his until the year of release, and after that it returns to the lifted one; but his holding stays with his sons.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. To herald the welcome year of the LORD.THE THREAD
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 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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