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Lexicon :: Strong's G1658 - eleutheros

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ἐλεύθερος
Transliteration
eleutheros (Key)
Pronunciation
el-yoo'-ther-os
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from the alternate of ἔρχομαι (G2064)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:487,224

Strong’s Definitions

ἐλεύθερος eleútheros, el-yoo'-ther-os; probably from the alternate of G2064; unrestrained (to go at pleasure), i.e. (as a citizen) not a slave (whether freeborn or manumitted), or (genitive case) exempt (from obligation or liability):—free (man, woman), at liberty.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x

The KJV translates Strong's G1658 in the following manner: free (18x), free woman (3x), at liberty (1x), free man (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x
The KJV translates Strong's G1658 in the following manner: free (18x), free woman (3x), at liberty (1x), free man (1x).

  1. freeborn

    1. in a civil sense, one who is not a slave

    2. of one who ceases to be a slave, freed, manumitted

  2. free, exempt, unrestrained, not bound by an obligation

  3. in an ethical sense: free from the yoke of the Mosaic Law

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐλεύθερος eleútheros, el-yoo'-ther-os; probably from the alternate of G2064; unrestrained (to go at pleasure), i.e. (as a citizen) not a slave (whether freeborn or manumitted), or (genitive case) exempt (from obligation or liability):—free (man, woman), at liberty.
STRONGS G1658:
ἐλεύθερος, -έρα, -ερον, (ΕΛΕΥΘΩ equivalent to ἔρχομαι [so Curtius, p. 497, after Etym. Magn. 329, 43; Suidas col. 1202 a., Gaisf. edition; but others besides, cf. Vanicek, p. 61]; hence, properly, one who can go whither he pleases), [from Homer down], Sept. for חָפְשִׁי, free;
1. freeborn; in a civil sense, one who is not a slave: John 8:33; 1 Corinthians 7:22; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Galatians 3:28; Ephesians 6:8; Colossians 3:11; Revelation 6:15; Revelation 13:16; Revelation 19:18; feminine, Galatians 4:22f, 30f. (opposed to ἡ παιδίσκη); of one who ceases to be a slave, freed, manumitted: γίνεσθαι ἐλεύθερον, 1 Corinthians 7:21.
2. free, exempt, unrestrained, not bound by an obligation: 1 Corinthians 9:1; ἐκ πάντων (see ἐκ, I. 6 at the end), 1 Corinthians 9:19; ἀπό τινος, free from i. e. no longer under obligation to, so that one may now do what was formerly forbidden by the person or thing to which he was bound, Romans 7:3 [cf. Winers Grammar, 196f (185); Buttmann, 157f (138), 269 (231)]; followed by an infinitive [Winers Grammar, 319 (299); Buttmann, 260 (224)], ἐλευθέρα ἐστὶν... γαμηθῆναι she is free to be married, has liberty to marry, 1 Corinthians 7:39; exempt from paying tribute or tax, Matthew 17:26.
3. in an ethical sense: free from the yoke of the Mosaic law, Galatians 4:26; 1 Peter 2:16; from the bondage of sin, John 8:36; left to one's own will and pleasure, with the dative of respect, τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ, so far as relates to righteousness, as respects righteousness, Romans 6:20 (Winers Grammar, § 31, 1 k.; Buttmann, § 133, 12).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
17:26
John
8:33; 8:36
Romans
6:20; 7:3
1 Corinthians
7:21; 7:22; 7:39; 9:1; 9:19; 12:13
Galatians
3:28; 4:22; 4:26; 4:30
Ephesians
6:8
Colossians
3:11
1 Peter
2:16
Revelation
6:15; 13:16; 19:18

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1658 matches the Greek ἐλεύθερος (eleutheros),
which occurs 23 times in 23 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 17:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:26 - Peter says to him, From strangers. Jesus said to him, Then are the sons free.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 8:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:33 - They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never been under bondage to any one; how sayest thou, Ye shall become free?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 8:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:36 - If therefore the Son shall set you free, ye shall be really free.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:20 - For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:3 - so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 7:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:21 - Hast thou been called being a bondman, let it not concern thee; but and if thou canst become free, use it rather.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 7:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:22 - For the bondman that is called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in like manner also the freeman being called is Christ's bondman.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 7:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:39 - A wife is bound for whatever time her husband lives; but if the husband be fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:1 - Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not *ye* my work in the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:19 - For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most possible.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:13 - For also in the power of one Spirit *we* have all been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or free, and have all been given to drink of one Spirit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:28 - There is no Jew nor Greek; there is no bondman nor freeman; there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:22 - For it is written that Abraham had two sons; one of the maid servant, and one of the free woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:23 - But he that was of the maid servant was born according to flesh, and he that was of the free woman through the promise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:26 - but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:30 - But what says the scripture? Cast out the maid servant and her son; for the son of the maid servant shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:31 - So then, brethren, we are not maid servant's children, but children of the free woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 6:8 - knowing that whatever good each shall do, this he shall receive of the Lord, whether bond or free.

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:11 - wherein there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is everything, and in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:16 - as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 6:15 - And the kings of the earth, and the great, and the chiliarchs, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:16 - And it causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bondmen, that they should give them a mark upon their right hand or upon their forehead;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 19:18 - that ye may eat flesh of kings, and flesh of chiliarchs, and flesh of strong men, and flesh of horses and of those that sit upon them, and flesh of all, both free and bond, and small and great.
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