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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 18 times in 18 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:2

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“If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:5 - “But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out as a free man,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:26

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“And if a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave and ruins it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27 - “And if he [fn]knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:12

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“If your brother, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you, then he shall serve you six years, but in the seventh year you shall [fn]let him go to be free from you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:13 - “When you [fn]let him go to be free from you, you shall not [fn]let him go empty-handed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:18

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“It shall not seem hard in your sight when you [fn]let him go to be free from you, for he has given you six years with [fn]double the service of a hired man; so Yahweh your God will bless you in whatever you do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:14 - “And it will be that, if you do not desire her, then you shall let her go [fn]wherever she wishes; but you shall certainly not sell her for money; you shall not [fn]mistreat her because you have humbled her.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:8 -

So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent letters to the elders and to the nobles who were living with Naboth in his city.

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So the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them, just as it was written in the letters which she had sent them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:17 - Then I contended with the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing you are doing, even profaning the sabbath day?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:5 -

“Who sent out the wild donkey free?

And who loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:4 -

I am counted among those who go down to the pit;

I am like a man without strength,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:17 - Blessed are you, O land, whose king is of nobility and whose princes eat at the appropriate time—for might and not for drinking.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:2 - (This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the court officials, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths had gone out from Jerusalem.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:9 - that each man should let his male slave go free and each man his female slave, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, so that no one should enslave them, each being a Jew, his brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:14 - “At the end of seven years each of you shall let his Hebrew brother go who [fn]has been sold to you and has served you six years, and you shall let him go to be free from you; but your fathers did not obey Me or incline their ear to Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:16 - “Yet you turned and profaned My name, and each man [fn]returned to themselves his male slave and each man his female slave whom you had let go as free according to their desire, and you subdued them to be your male slaves and female slaves.”’
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