Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageAnd from then on, his family shall be known in Israel as 'The House of the Unsandaled Man.'
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GAnd his name shall be called in Yisra'el: 'The house of the one whose sandal was pulled off.'
KJV
King James VersionAnd his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleAnd his family name in Israel will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.”
Footnotes
*Beit chaluts hana'al* ("the house of the sandal-removed one") functions as a formal, perpetual shame-name. In a culture where family honour and name were inseparable from social standing and economic opportunity, this branding of the family line was a significant deterrent — not a legal penalty but a communal one. Notably, the Talmud records that by the rabbinic period *chalitzah* had become the preferred option over *yibbum*, and this shame-name was no longer considered dishonourable. FOG renders the phrase with wooden literalism to preserve the wordplay; FOG Message casts it as a memorable title with liturgical force.