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# שְׁמִטָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8059

**a letting drop** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

a letting drop [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8059/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁמִטָּה: n.f. letting drop remitting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8059/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a letting drop of exactions, a (temporary) remitting: תַּעֲשֶׂה שׁ׳ Dt 15:1 (at end of seven years), v 2 כִּי קָרָא שׁ׳ לי׳; whence seventh year is שְׁנַת הַשּׁ׳ v 9; 31:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the remission (3); a remission (2).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 15:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.15.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.15.1/#tree)

מִקֵּ֥ץ שֶֽׁבַע־שָׁנִ֖ים תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה שְׁמִטָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* from.\[the\] end of.seven years you.will.observe a.remission

*JPS 1917:* At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

[Deuteronomy 31:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.31.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.31.10/#tree)

וַיְצַ֥ו מֹשֶׁ֖ה אוֹתָ֣ם לֵאמֹ֑ר מִקֵּ֣ץ ׀ שֶׁ֣בַע שָׁנִ֗ים בְּמֹעֵ֛ד שְׁנַ֥ת הַשְּׁמִטָּ֖ה בְּחַ֥ג הַסֻּכּֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and he.commanded Moses them (cmp) from.\[the\] end of.seven years at the.appointed.time of.the.year of the.remission at the.festival of the.booths

*JPS 1917:* And Moses commanded them, saying: 'At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8059/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).