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Exodus 21:26

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Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.	And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.	And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And if a man^H376 smite^H5221 the eye^H5869 of his servant^H5650, or the eye^H5869 of his maid^H519, that it perish^H7843; he shall let him go^H7971 free^H2670 for^H8478 his eye's^H5869 sake.

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Original Hebrew

וְכִי־יַכֶּה אִישׁ אֶת־עֵין עַבְדֹּו אֹו־אֶת־עֵין אֲמָתֹו וְשִׁחֲתָהּ לַחָפְשִׁי יְשַׁלְּחֶנּוּ תַּחַת עֵינֹו׃ ס

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וְ/כִֽי	ve./khi-	H3588	HC/C	and/ if
יַכֶּ֨ה	ya.Keh	H5221	HVhi3ms	he will strike
אִ֜ישׁ	'ish	H376	HNcmsa	anyone
אֶת	'et-	H853	HTo	(obj.)
עֵ֥ין	'ein	H5869	HNcbsc	(the) eye of
עַבְדּ֛/וֹ	av.D/o	H5650	HNcmsc/Sp3ms	(male) slave/ his
אֽוֹ	'ov-	H176	HC	or
אֶת	'et-	H853	HTo	(obj.)
עֵ֥ין	'ein	H5869	HNcbsc	(the) eye of
אֲמָת֖/וֹ	'a.ma.T/o	H519	HNcfsc/Sp3ms	female slave/ his
וְ/שִֽׁחֲתָ֑/הּ	ve./shi.cha.Ta/h	H7843	HC/Vpq3ms/Sp3fs	and/ he will destroy/ it
לַֽ/חָפְשִׁ֥י	la./cha.fe.Shi	H2670	HRd/Aamsa	to (the)/ free (person)
יְשַׁלְּחֶ֖/נּוּ	ye.shal.le.Che./nu	H7971	HVpi3ms/Sp3ms	he will set free/ him
תַּ֥חַת	Ta.chat	H8478	HR	in place of
עֵינֽ/וֹ	ei.N/o	H5869	HNcbsc/Sp3ms	eye/ his

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H376 — אִישׁ (ʼîysh, eesh): contracted for אֱנוֹשׁ (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant); a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation); also, another, any (man), a certain, [phrase] champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), [phrase] none, one, people, person, [phrase] steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare אִשָּׁה.
• H519 — אָמָה (ʼâmâh, aw-maw'): apparently a primitive word; a maidservant or female slave; (hand-) bondmaid(-woman), maid(-servant).
• H2670 — חׇפְשִׁי (chophshîy, khof-shee'): from חָפַשׁ; exempt (from bondage, tax or care); free, liberty.
• H5221 — נָכָה (nâkâh, naw-kaw'): a primitive root; to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively); beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), [idiom] go forward, [idiom] indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, [idiom] surely, wound.
• H5650 — עֶבֶד (ʻebed, eh'-bed): from עָבַד; a servant; [idiom] bondage, bondman, (bond-) servant, (man-) servant.
• H5869 — עַיִן (ʻayin, ah'-yin): probably a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape); affliction, outward appearance, [phrase] before, [phrase] think best, colour, conceit, [phrase] be content, countenance, [phrase] displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, [phrase] favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), [idiom] him, [phrase] humble, knowledge, look, ([phrase] well), [idiom] me, open(-ly), [phrase] (not) please, presence, [phrase] regard, resemblance, sight, [idiom] thee, [idiom] them, [phrase] think, [idiom] us, well, [idiom] you(-rselves).
• H7843 — שָׁחַת (shâchath, shaw-khath'): a primitive root; to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively); batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, [idiom] utterly, waste(-r).
• H7971 — שָׁלַח (shâlach, shaw-lakh'): a primitive root; to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications); [idiom] any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, [idiom] earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
• H8478 — תַּחַת (tachath, takh'-ath): from the same as תּוֹחַ; the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc.; as, beneath, [idiom] flat, in(-stead), (same) place (where...is), room, for...sake, stead of, under, [idiom] unto, [idiom] when...was mine, whereas, (where-) fore, with.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H176 — אוֹ (ʼôw, o): presumed to be the 'constructive' or genitival form of אַו ; short for אַוָּה; desire (and so probably in Proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if; also, and, either, if, at the least, [idiom] nor, or, otherwise, then, whether.
• H853 — אֵת (ʼêth, ayth): apparent contracted from אוֹת in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely); (as such unrepresented in English).
• H3588 — כִּי (kîy, kee): a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed; and, + (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-) as, assured(-ly), + but, certainly, doubtless, + else, even, + except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, + nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, + (al-) though, + till, truly, + until, when, whether, while, whom, yea, yet.

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