יוֹבֵל

yovel

yo-VALE

jubilee, ram horn

Where it comes from

A yovel is a ram horn, and the fiftieth year is named after the noise it makes. Debts cancelled, land returned, slaves freed, all announced by a horn. There is no evidence Israel ever kept it. It stayed on the books anyway.

Every place it appears

Strong's H3104. It stands in 25 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. See them →

Leviticus 25:10

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

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