Hebrew noun (feminine) · H8059
שְׁמִטָּה
shemittahshem-it-taw'
remission
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shᵉmiṭṭâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8059is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8059
remission (of debt) or suspension of labor)
The King James renders it: release.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
shemittah is rendered "remission". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Five of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 15:1At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.
Deuteronomy 15:1שְׁמִטָּֽה׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's five uses are in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the remission3
- a remission2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁמֹנֶה | shemoneh | eight | Uses109 |
| שְׁמָמָה | shemamah | devastation | Uses57 |
| שְׁמֹנִים | shemonim | eighty | Uses38 |
| שְׁמִינִי | shemini | eighth | Uses28 |
| שְׁמוּעָה | shemuah | tidings | Uses27 |
| שְׁמַע | shema | to hear | Uses9 |
| שְׁמַד | shemad | to destroy | Uses1 |
| שְׁמַם | shemam | be appalled | Uses1 |
| שְׁמֻרָה | shemurah | waking | Uses1 |
| שְׁמִינִית | sheminith | Sheminith | Uses1 |
| שְׁמִידָעִי | Shemidai | Shemidaite | Uses1 |
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַשְּׁמִטָּה֒2
- הַשְּׁמִטָּ֖ה1
- שְׁמִטָּ֖ה1
- שְׁמִטָּֽה׃1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular3HTd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular2HNcfsa
Deuteronomy
five uses
At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.
- שְׁמִטָּֽה׃shemitahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a remission
This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed.
- הַשְּׁמִטָּה֒hashemitahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the remission
- שְׁמִטָּ֖הshemitahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a remission
Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
- הַשְּׁמִטָּה֒hashemitahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the remission
Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles,
- הַשְּׁמִטָּ֖הhashemitahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the remission
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.