King James Version
Exodus 21:27 in the King James Version says “And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 21 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.”
Exodus 21:27 · KJV
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past , and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
KJV Study — Public Domain
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“And if he smite”
H5307to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
“he shall let him go”
H7971to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
“for his tooth's”
H8127a tooth (as sharp); specifically ivory; figuratively, a cliff
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