| 单词 | year of jubilee |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyear of jubilee a. Jewish History. (More fully year of jubilee). A year of emancipation and restoration, which according to the institution in Leviticus xxv was to be kept every fifty years, and to be proclaimed by the blast of trumpets throughout the land; during it the fields were to be left uncultivated, Hebrew slaves were to be set free, and lands and houses in the open country or unwalled towns that had been sold were to revert to their former owners or their heirs. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > of specific calendar year of gracec1325 year of jubilee1382 emergent yearc1450 Julian year1592 sabbatic1649 academical year1773 academic year1814 Sothic year1828 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > a time of > in Jewish history year of jubilee1382 society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > [noun] > remission of something due > time of remission or release > specifically in jewish history year of jubilee1382 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. xxv. 10 Thow shalt halowe the fyftith ȝeer..he is forsothe the iubilee [L. ipse est enim jubilaeus; 1535 Coverd. Iubilye, 1560 (Geneva) Iubile, 1569 (Bps.) Iubilee, 1611 Iubile]. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. xxv. 13 The ȝeer of iubilee [L. anno jubilaei]. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Josh. vi. 4 The prestis shulen taak seuen trompes, whos vse is in the iubile [L. buccinas, quarum usus est in jubileo]. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 562 Iubely is of this Hebrew word Iobel, which in English, signifieth a Trumpet: a yeare of singuler mirth and ioy, and of much rest. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 126 Touching this yeare of Iubilee is much controversie. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 126 Scaliger..proving that the Iubilee was but fortie nine yeares complete, and that the fiftieth yeare was the first onwards of another Iubilee or Sabbath of yeares. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) II. 205 In Würtemberg, too, the Israelitish year of jubilee was preached to the peasants. 1897 S. R. Driver Introd. Lit. Old Test. (ed. 6) 57 It is impossible to think that..the institution of Jubile is a mere paper-law... At least so far as concerns the land..it must date from ancient times in Israel. < as lemmas |
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