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Leviticus 25

Lev. 25:39 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And if thy brother
'ach (Hebrew #251)
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like 1))
KJV usage: another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with "Ah-" or "Ahi-".
Pronounce: awkh
Origin: a primitive word
that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor
muwk (Hebrew #4134)
to become thin, i.e. (figuratively) be impoverished
KJV usage: be (waxen) poor(-er).
Pronounce: mook
Origin: a primitive root
, and be sold
makar (Hebrew #4376)
to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender)
KJV usage: X at all, sell (away, -er, self).
Pronounce: maw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
unto thee; thou shalt not ρcompel
`abad (Hebrew #5647)
to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
KJV usage: X be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, + husbandman, keep, labour(-ing man, bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve(-ing, self), (be, become) servant(-s), do (use) service, till(-er), transgress (from margin), (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper,
Pronounce: aw-bad'
Origin: a primitive root
him to serve
`abodah (Hebrew #5656)
from 5647; work of any kind
KJV usage: act, bondage, + bondservant, effect, labour, ministering(-try), office, service(-ile, -itude), tillage, use, work, X wrought.
Pronounce: ab-o-daw'
Origin: or mabowdah {ab-o-daw'}
as a bondservant
`ebed (Hebrew #5650)
a servant
KJV usage: X bondage, bondman, (bond-)servant, (man-)servant.
Pronounce: eh'-bed
Origin: from 5647
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serve thyself with him with the service

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Bond-Servant,
Poor

Cross References

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be sold.
Ex. 21:2• 2If thou buy a Hebrew bondman, six years shall he serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. (Ex. 21:2)
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Ex. 22:3• 3If the sun be risen on him, there shall be blood-guiltiness for him; he should have made full restitution: if he had nothing, he would have been sold for his theft. (Ex. 22:3)
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Deut. 15:12• 12If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, have been sold unto thee, he shall serve thee six years, and in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. (Deut. 15:12)
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1 Kings 9:22• 22But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen; but they were men of war, and his servants, and his chiefs, and his captains, and captains of his chariots, and his horsemen. (1 Kings 9:22)
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2 Kings 4:1• 1And a woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant feared Jehovah; and the creditor is come to take my two children to be bondmen. (2 Kings 4:1)
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Neh. 5:5• 5yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and behold, we must bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already; neither is it in the power of our hand to redeem them, for other men have our fields and our vineyards. (Neh. 5:5)
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Jer. 34:14• 14At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother, a Hebrew, who hath sold himself unto thee; when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee. But your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear. (Jer. 34:14)
compel him to serve as.
Heb. serve thyself with him withthe service of, etc.
Lev. 25:46• 46And ye shall leave them as an inheritance to your children after you, to inherit them as a possession: these may ye make your bondmen for ever; but as for your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule over one another with rigour. (Lev. 25:46)
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Lev. 25•  (Lev. 25)
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Ex. 1:14• 14and they embittered their life with hard labour in clay and bricks, and in all manner of labour in the field: all their labour with which they made them serve was with harshness. (Ex. 1:14)
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Jer. 25:14• 14For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands. (Jer. 25:14)
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Jer. 27:7• 7And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his land also come, when many nations and great kings shall reduce him to servitude. (Jer. 27:7)
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Jer. 30:8• 8And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more reduce him to servitude. (Jer. 30:8)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And if thy brother grow poor beside thee, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: