King James Version
Exodus 21:2 in the King James Version says “If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 21 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.”
Exodus 21:2 · KJV
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married , then his wife shall go out with him. by himself: Heb. with his body
If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“If thou buy”
H7069to erect, i.e., create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
“six”
H8337six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ordinal, sixth
“he shall serve”
H5647to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc
“he shall go out”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
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