Leviticus 25:44

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shalt have; of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעַבְדְּךָ֥ וַאֲמָתְךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִהְיוּ־לָ֑ךְ מֵאֵ֣ת הַגּוֹיִ֗ם אֲשֶׁר֙ סְבִיבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם מֵהֶ֥ם תִּקְנ֖וּ עֶ֥בֶד וְאָמָֽה׃

Transliteration

And-ʿabdĕkā and-ʾămātĕkā ʾăšer yihyû-to-you from-ʾēt the-gôyim ʾăšer sĕbîbōtêkem from-them tiqnû ʿebed and-ʾāmâ.

Grammar Details

*ʿabdĕkā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular possessive suffix - your male slave
*ʾămātĕkā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular possessive suffix - your female slave
*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - who/which/that
*yihyû*: 3rd person masculine plural qal imperfect - they shall be
*ʾēt*: preposition - from
*gôyim*: masculine plural noun with definite article - the nations
*sĕbîbōtêkem*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural possessive suffix - your surroundings
*tiqnû*: 2nd person masculine plural qal imperfect - you shall buy
*ʿebed*: masculine singular noun - male slave
*ʾāmâ*: feminine singular noun - female slave

Word Meanings

*gôyim*: nations/peoples/gentiles
*sĕbîbōtêkem*: around you/surrounding you/in your vicinity
*tiqnû*: buy/purchase/acquire

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Referenced Verses

Exod 12:44 : 44 but every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
Ps 2:8-9 : 8 Ask of me, and I will give [thee] the nations for thine inheritance, And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Isa 14:1-2 : 1 For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. 2 And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Jehovah for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
Rev 2:26-27 : 26 And he that overcometh, and he that keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give authority over the nations: 27 and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to shivers; as I also have received of my Father:

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