Strong's Hebrew: 8059. שְׁמִטָּה (shemittah) -- a letting drop, a (temporary) remitting

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shemittah: a letting drop, a (temporary) remitting

Original Word: שְׁמִטָּה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: shemittah
Phonetic Spelling: (shem-it-taw')
Short Definition: remission

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from shamat
Definition
a letting drop, a (temporary) remitting
NASB Translation
remission (5).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

שְׁמִטָּה noun feminine a letting drop of exactions, a (temporary) remitting: ׳תַּעֲשֶׂה שׁ Deuteronomy 15:1(at end of seven years), Deuteronomy 15:2 ׳לי ׳כִּי קָרָא שׁ; whence seventh year is ׳שְׁנַת הַשּׁ Deuteronomy 15:9; Deuteronomy 31:10.

שְׁמִירָמוֺת see below שֵׁם. p. 1029.

Strong's

release

From shamat; remission (of debt) or suspension of labor) -- release.

see HEBREW shamat