Remission
שְׁמִטָּהStrong’s H8059shemittah (she-mit-tah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shemittah is the Hebrew word usually translated “remission”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.”
Meaning
- Letting drop of exactions, (temporary) remitting, release (from debt)
How it's translated
- the remission 3
- a remission 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 4
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 15:2And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’s release.
- Deuteronomy 15:9Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
- Deuteronomy 31:10And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁמִטָּה shemittah · remission
letting drop of exactions, (temporary) remitting, release (from debt)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “remission” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REMIS'SION, noun
[Latin remissio, from remitto, to send back.]
- Abatement; relaxation; moderation; as the remission of extreme rigor.
- Abatement; diminution of intensity; as the remission of the sun's heat; the remission of cold; the remission of close study or of labor.
- Release; discharge or relinquishment of a claim or right; as the remission of a tax or duty.
- In medicine, abatement; a temporary subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as distinguished from intermission, in which the disease leaves the patient entirely for a time.
All definitions
- Forgiveness; pardon; that is, the giving up of the punishment due to a crime; as the remission of sins. Matthew 26:28Hebrews 9:22
- The act of sending back. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.