Deuteronomy 25:10

Summary

The verse states that as a consequence of the preceding action (the sandal-removal ritual), the man's name will be publicly designated in Israel by a fixed epithet: "House of the one whose sandal was drawn off." It describes the naming/labeling that follows the ritual act described earlier in the passage.

Key words

• nikra ("it will be called", H7121H) — niphal (passive) verb in sequential perfect form; continues the narrative sequence and marks the naming as something done to the subject (passive), not by himself.
• shem ("name", H8034) — masculine singular noun in construct state, meaning it is grammatically linked to the following possessive suffix ("his name of...").
• Yisra'El ("Israel", H3478) — proper noun marking the social/national sphere in which this naming will occur (introduced by the preposition be / "in", H9003).
• beit ("house of", H1004M) — masculine singular noun in construct state, opening the epithet-phrase that becomes the new designation.
• chalutz ("the one drawn off of", H2502A) — qal passive participle, masculine singular, construct state; describes the man as having had something (the sandal) removed from him, and its construct form links it directly to hana'al.

What the text says

The verse is built as a single sequential clause introduced by the narrative ve ("and", H9001) attached to nikra ("it will be called", H7121H). The niphal (passive) form of the verb indicates that the naming happens to the man rather than being an action he performs himself — he receives this designation. The noun shem ("name", H8034) is in construct state with the following suffix o ("his", H9023), producing "his name," and the whole phrase "his name will be called in Israel" sets up the location and social context: the sphere of Israel is where this specific designation will be used.

The content of the name follows as a construct chain: beit ("house of", H1004M) governs chalutz ("the one drawn off of", H2502A), which is itself a passive participle in construct state governing hana'al ("the sandal", H5275) with its definite article ha ("the", H9009). This chain — "house of the drawn-off-of the sandal" — functions as a fixed epithet or label rather than a literal genealogical "house." The construct chain in Hebrew allows several nouns to link without additional connecting words, producing a compact phrase that translations must render with prepositions ("of," "of the").

Differences between versions

The LXX renders chalutz with a participle form τοῦ ὑπολυθέντος ("of the one released/loosened"), paired with τὸ ὑπόδημα ("the sandal") in a genitive-absolute-like construction, differing slightly in syntax from the Hebrew construct chain but preserving the same descriptive sense. The Vulgate condenses the phrase into a single adjective, discalceati ("of the unshod one"), collapsing the Hebrew's two-word construct expression (chalutz hana'al) into one Latin term. The English BSB similarly compresses this into "the Unsandaled," while the Spanish RV1909 and SBLIBRE retain more of the descriptive verbal sense ("del descalzado" / "del que se quitó la sandalia").