Deuteronomy15:7–11

The same rare verb — lending on pledge verbal / quotation — confirmed

⚙ The doubled verb of v. 8, haʻăḇēṭ taʻăḇîṭennû (root ‘āḇaṭ, “to lend on pledge”), is among the rarest in the Hebrew Bible — it occurs in only four verses, all clustered around the law of lending. Deuteronomy 24:10 governs how to take the pledge (do not enter the borrower’s house); 15:6 promises Israel will lend and not borrow. The verbal link is exact and rare, the Verifier-recorded basis for treating these as one legal vocabulary.

Deuteronomy 24:10 · Deuteronomy 15:6

basis: shared rare lexeme H5670 ʻâbaṭ (in only 4 verses) — the technical verb for lending on pledge, binding Deut 15:8 to 24:10 and 15:6

The year of release — šᵉmiṭṭāh verbal / quotation — confirmed

⚙ The temptation in v. 9 is named by the statute it abuses: “the seventh year, the year of release (šᵉmiṭṭāh) is near.” The release-law itself stands at the head of this chapter (15:1–2) and its sabbatical reading is appointed in 31:10. The noun šᵉmiṭṭâh (H8059) appears in only four verses in all of Scripture; the shared rare lexeme is the recorded basis for binding v. 9’s loophole to the very law it would exploit.

Deuteronomy 15:1 · Deuteronomy 15:2 · Deuteronomy 31:10

basis: shared rare lexeme H8059 shᵉmiṭṭâh (in only 4 verses), with H7651 shebaʻ and H8141 shâneh — the same release-statute named in Deut 15:9 and legislated in 15:1–2, 31:10

The shut hand and the shut mouth — qāphaṣ verbal / quotation — confirmed

⚙ The vivid verb of v. 7, qāphaṣ (“to draw together, clench shut”), is rare — seven occurrences in the whole Hebrew Bible. Outside this law it most often shuts a mouth: God “shuts the mouth” of iniquity (Job 5:16) and unrighteousness “stops her mouth” (Psalm 107:42); in the fourth Servant Song the verb turns the other way, where “kings shall shut their mouths” in astonishment at the exalted Servant (Isaiah 52:15). The same rare lexeme binds the closed hand of Deuteronomy to the closed mouth of the wisdom and prophetic books — one gesture of drawing-tight, refusal in the law, awed silence before the Servant. This is a shared-lexeme verbal link, not a quotation: no text here cites another.

Job 5:16 · Psalm 107:42 · Isaiah 52:15 · Job 24:24

basis: shared rare lexeme H7092 qâphats (in only 7 verses) — the clench/shut gesture, linking the shut hand (Deut 15:7) to the shut mouth (Job 5:16; Ps 107:42; Isa 52:15); a verbal/lexical link, not a citation

The destitute and the gift sent forth — ’eḇyôn / mišlôaḥ structural / thematic — confirmed

⚙ The destitute man (’eḇyôn) and the “sending-out” of the hand (mišlôaḥ, v. 10) reappear together in Esther 9:22, where Purim is kept by “sending portions” (mišlôaḥ mānôṯ) and “gifts to the needy” (’eḇyôn). The link is thematic rather than a quotation — the shared lexemes are common — but the pattern is the same: covenant joy that translates into open-handed provision for the poor. Tiered structural, not verbal, because ’eḇyôn (58 verses) is not rare.

Esther 9:22

basis: shared lexemes H34 ʼebyôwn (58 vv) and H4916 mishlôwach (10 vv) — common terms, so the link is the shared motif of provision for the needy, not a verbal quotation

Cross-Testament: God loves a cheerful giver structural / thematic — confirmed

⚙ The PD commentators are unanimous that v. 10’s “let not your heart be grieved when you give” is the seedbed of Paul’s “God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Cor 9:7) — Gill, Poole, Keil & Delitzsch, JFB, and Henry all make the link. This is a Greek↔Hebrew connection, so it cannot rest on shared Strong's numbers and is not a quotation: Paul does not cite Deuteronomy here. It is a structural/thematic resonance — the un-grieved, willing heart as the condition God prizes in giving — carried by the long human-commentary tradition rather than by a verbal citation.

2 Corinthians 9:7 · 2 Corinthians 8:12 · Romans 12:8

basis: cross-Testament (Greek↔Hebrew): no shared Strong's possible; thematic link of the cheerful/willing heart in giving, attested by Gill, Poole, K&D, JFB on Deut 15:10

The release-year and the acceptable year of the Lord widely-held

⚙ Matthew Henry reads the chapter’s “year of release” as a type: it “typified the grace of the gospel, in which is proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord; and by which we obtain the release of our debts, that is, the pardon of our sins.” The connection is ancient and widely held in Christian reading: the sabbatical remission of debts (šᵉmiṭṭāh) foreshadows the jubilee Jesus announces in the synagogue at Nazareth (Luke 4:18–19, citing Isa 61), and the cancellation of debt becomes the gospel image for the forgiveness of sin (cf. Matt 6:12; Col 2:14). The tool notes the figural step honestly: Henry's typology is interpretive, not a verbal claim of the Hebrew on the Greek.

Luke 4:18 · Luke 4:19 · Colossians 2:14

The open hand and the One who became poor widely-held

⚙ The law that commands the open hand to the ’eḇyôn finds its deepest fulfillment, in the historic Christian reading, in the One who “though He was rich, yet for your sakes became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich” (2 Cor 8:9) — and it is in that same letter, one chapter on, that Paul sets down the cheerful giver (2 Cor 9:7) whom the PD voices already read back into Deuteronomy 15:10. Christ does not merely keep the command to open the hand; He is the destitute brother and the generous giver at once — the cheerful giver God loves, given for the poor. This is a typological/devotional reading, offered as such and to be tested; it is not claimed as a verbal citation of Deuteronomy.

2 Corinthians 8:9 · Philippians 2:7 · 2 Corinthians 9:7