שְׁמִטָּה
shemita · release, remission
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8059 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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shemita (שְׁמִטָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “release, remission”.
Release: the "letting go" of debts in the seventh year.
How to say it
she·mi·ta
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Cancelling debts every seventh year.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 15:1
At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
- Deuteronomy 15:2
And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release the loan of his hand that he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not press his neighbor or his brother, because a release to YHWH has been proclaimed.
- Deuteronomy 15:9
Guard yourself so that there is not a wicked word in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” and your eye is evil toward your brother, the needy one, and you do not give him anything, and he cries out against you to YHWH, and it becomes sin in you.
- Deuteronomy 31:10
And Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time of the year of release, at the Feast of Booths,
And 1 more times.