What Does Leviticus 25:45 Mean?

properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and

“Moreover of the children”

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

“of the strangers”

a dweller but not outlandish [h5237]; especially (as distinguished from a native citizen [active participle of h3427] and a temporary inmate [h1616] o

“that do sojourn”

properly, to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e., sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place);

adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then

they (only used when emphatic)

“among you of them shall ye buy”

to erect, i.e., create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own

“and of their families”

a family, i.e., circle of relatives; figuratively, a class (of persons), a species (of animals) or sort (of things); by extension a tribe or people

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“that are with you which they begat”

to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage

“in your land”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

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

“and they shall be your possession”

something seized, i.e., a possession (especially of land)