Leviticus 25:29
in Leviticus 25If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And if a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; for a full year shall he have the right of redemption.
KJV
And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
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This verse in Leviticus 25
Commentary
5 notes on this verseSell a dwelling house in a walled city - A very proper difference is put between houses in a city and houses in the country. If a man sold his house in the city, he might redeem it any time in the course of a year; but if it were not redeemed within that time, it could no more be redeemed, nor did it go out even in the jubilee.
This site's exposition
if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city
on Leviticus 25:29-31
A house inside a walled city is the one property in Israel that can be sold outright. It stays redeemable for twelve months and after that belongs to the buyer through his generations, while houses in unwalled villages count as fields and go out at the jubile. What the law guards is the family's share of ground, so a dwelling with no field under it falls outside the guard.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city,....
This provision was made to encourage strangers and proselytes to come and settle among them. Though they could not purchase land in Canaan to them and their heirs, yet they might purchase houses in walled cities, which would be most convenient for those who were supposed to live by trade.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold--All sales of houses were subject to the same condition.
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The words behind it
16 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאִ֗ישׁ | veish | and anyone | H376 → | 1663 times |
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | if | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| יִמְכֹּ֤ר | yimkor | he will sell | H4376 → | 80 times |
| בֵּית־ | beit- | a house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| מוֹשַׁב֙ | moshav | dwelling of | H4186 → | 44 times |
| עִ֣יר | ʾir | a city of | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| חוֹמָ֔ה | chomah | a wall | H2346 → | 133 times |
| וְהָיְתָה֙ | vehaytah | and it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| גְּאֻלָּת֔וֹ | geulato | right of redemption its | H1353 → | 14 times |
| עַד־ | ʾad- | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| תֹּ֖ם | tom | is finished | H8552 → | |
| שְׁנַ֣ת | shenat | [the] year of | H8141 → | 877 times |
| מִמְכָּר֑וֹ | mikaro | sale its | H4465 → | 10 times |
| יָמִ֖ים | yamim | days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| תִּהְיֶ֥ה | tihyeh | it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| גְאֻלָּתֽוֹ׃ | geulato | right of redemption its | H1353 → | 14 times |
וְאִ֗ישׁand anyone
veishH376 →1663 times
כִּֽי־if
ki-H3588 →4482 times
יִמְכֹּ֤רhe will sell
yimkorH4376 →80 times
בֵּית־a house of
beit-H1004 →2046 times
מוֹשַׁב֙dwelling of
moshavH4186 →44 times
עִ֣ירa city of
ʾirH5892 →1090 times
חוֹמָ֔הa wall
chomahH2346 →133 times
וְהָיְתָה֙and it will be
vehaytahH1961 →3559 times
גְּאֻלָּת֔וֹright of redemption its
geulatoH1353 →14 times
עַד־until
ʾad-H5704 →1261 times
תֹּ֖םis finished
tomH8552 →
שְׁנַ֣ת[the] year of
shenatH8141 →877 times
מִמְכָּר֑וֹsale its
mikaroH4465 →10 times
יָמִ֖יםdays
yamimH3117 →2304 times
תִּהְיֶ֥הit will be
tihyehH1961 →3559 times
גְאֻלָּתֽוֹ׃right of redemption its
geulatoH1353 →14 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.