What Does Leviticus 25:11 Mean?

“A jubile”

the blast of a horn (from its continuous sound); specifically, the signal of the silver trumpets; hence, the instrument itself and the festival thus i

he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo

“year”

a year (as a revolution of time)

“shall that fiftieth”

fifty

“year”

a year (as a revolution of time)

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“be unto you ye shall not sow”

to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“neither reap”

to dock off, i.e., curtail (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative); especially to harvest (grass or grain)

properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc

“that which groweth”

something (spontaneously) falling off, i.e., a self-sown crop; figuratively, a freshet

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“of itself in it nor gather”

to gather grapes; also to be isolated (i.e., inaccessible by height or fortification)

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“the grapes in it of thy vine undressed”

separate, i.e., consecrated (as prince, a nazirite); hence (figuratively from the latter) an unpruned vine (like an unshorn nazirite)