Skip to content
mannafest.faith

Leviticus 27:16

in Leviticus 27

If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And if a man shall sanctify unto Jehovah part of the field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the sowing thereof: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

KJV

And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

This verse in Leviticus 27

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Some part of a field - Though the preceding words are not in the text, yet it is generally allowed they should be supplied here, as it was not lawful for a man to vow his whole estate, and thus make his family beggars, in order to enrich the Lord’s sanctuary: this God would not permit. The rabbins teach that the land or field, whether good or bad, was valued at forty-eight shekels, for all the years of the jubilee, provided the field was large enough to sow a homer of barley.

This site's exposition

if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD

on Leviticus 27:14-21

Verses 20 and 21 give the one way inherited land leaves a family for good, to the priests. Leviticus 25:13 returns every man to his property in the Jubilee, and here that year takes a field away.

This site's exposition

fifty shekels of silver for every homer

The Berean reads a parcel of his land. Adam Clarke explains why a part is meant: no man might vow his whole estate and leave his family beggars. The rabbis priced such a field at forty-eight shekels, Clarke reports.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

And in that case, (1.) The land was to be valued (as our countrymen commonly compute land) by so many measures' sowing of barley. So much land as would take a homer, or chomer, of barley, which contained ten ephahs, Ezek. xlv. 11 (not, as some have here mistaken it, an omer, which was but a tenth part of an ephah, Exod. xvi.

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — unbalanced-parens

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Of his possession - That is, which is his by inheritance, because particular direction is given about purchased lands, ver. 22. And he saith, part of it, for it was unlawful to vow away all his possessions, because thereby he disabled himself from the performance of divers duties, and made himself burdensome to his brethren.

quarantine:anchor (2026-07-29) — cites-ver-22-anchored-16-16

And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of his possession,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some aprt of a field of his possession, &c.--In the case of acquired property in land, if not redeemed, it returned to the donor at the Jubilee; whereas the part of a hereditary estate, which had been vowed, did not revert to the owner, but remained attached in perpetuity to the sanctuary.

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — starts-lowercase

Some part of a field of his possession - Rather, a part of the land of his inheritance. The seed thereof - i. e. the quantity of seed required to sow it properly. Thus the value of about 5 1/2 bushels (an homer) was about 6 pounds, 9 shillings, 2d. (50 shekels. See Exo 38:24.)

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְאִ֣ם׀and if

    veimH518 →1069 times

  • מִשְּׂדֵ֣הsome of [the] field of

    misedehH7704 →334 times

  • אֲחֻזָּת֗וֹpossession his

    ʾachuzatoH272 →66 times

  • יַקְדִּ֥ישׁhe will set apart as holy

    yakdishH6942 →171 times

  • אִישׁ֙anyone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • לַֽיהוָ֔הto Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וְהָיָ֥הand it will be

    vehayahH1961 →3559 times

  • עֶרְכְּךָ֖valuation your

    ʾerkekhaH6187 →33 times

  • לְפִ֣יto [the] mouth of

    lefiH6310 →498 times

  • זַרְע֑וֹseed its

    zaroH2233 →229 times

  • זֶ֚רַעseed of

    zera'H2233 →229 times

  • חֹ֣מֶרa homer of

    chomerH2563 →

  • שְׂעֹרִ֔יםbarley<s>

    seorimH8184 →

  • בַּחֲמִשִּׁ֖יםfor fifty

    bachamishimH2572 →163 times

  • שֶׁ֥קֶלshekel[s] of

    shekelH8255 →88 times

  • כָּֽסֶף׃silver

    kasefH3701 →403 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Acts 5:4

    Did it not belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? How could you conceive such a deed in your heart? You have not…

    it leads to

    • Acts 5:3

      Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?

    • 2 Kings 5:25–27

      When Gehazi went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Gehazi, where have you been?” “Your servant did not go anywhere,” he replied.

    • Joshua 7:25–26

      “Why have you brought this trouble upon us?” said Joshua. “Today the LORD will bring trouble upon you!” And all Israel stoned him to death. Then they stoned the others and burned their bodies.

    • 1 Chronicles 29:3

      Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give for it my personal treasures of gold and silver, over and above all that I have provided for this holy…

    • 1 Thessalonians 4:8

      Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.

  • Through

    Isaiah 5:10

    For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 26:26

      When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

    • Haggai 1:6

      You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into…

    • Haggai 2:16

      from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.