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Lexicon :: Strong's G1657 - eleutheria

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ἐλευθερία
Transliteration
eleutheria (Key)
Pronunciation
el-yoo-ther-ee'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:487,224

Strong’s Definitions

ἐλευθερία eleuthería, el-yoo-ther-ee'-ah; from G1658; freedom (legitimate or licentious, chiefly moral or ceremonial):—liberty.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's G1657 in the following manner: liberty (11x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's G1657 in the following manner: liberty (11x).

  1. liberty to do or to omit things having no relationship to salvation

  2. fancied liberty

    1. licence, the liberty to do as one pleases

  3. true liberty is living as we should not as we please

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐλευθερία eleuthería, el-yoo-ther-ee'-ah; from G1658; freedom (legitimate or licentious, chiefly moral or ceremonial):—liberty.
STRONGS G1657:
ἐλευθερία, -ας, ἡ, (ἐλεύθερος), liberty, [from Pindar, Herodotus down]; in the N. T.
a. liberty to do or to omit things having no relation to salvation, 1 Corinthians 10:29; from the yoke of the Mosaic law, Galatians 2:4; Galatians 5:1, 13; 1 Peter 2:16; from Jewish errors so blinding the mental vision that it does not discern the majesty of Christ, 2 Corinthians 3:17; freedom from the dominion of corrupt desires, so that we do by the free impulse of the soul what the will of God requires: ὁ νόμος τῆς ἐλευθερίας, i. e. the Christian religion, which furnishes that rule of right living by which the liberty just mentioned is attained, James 1:25; James 2:12; freedom from the restraints and miseries of earthly frailty: so in the expression ἡ ἐλευθερία τῆς δόξης (epexegetical genitive [Winer's Grammar, 531 (494)]), manifested in the glorious condition of the future life, Romans 8:21.
b. fancied liberty, i. e. license, the liberty to do as one pleases, 2 Peter 2:19. J. C. Erler, Commentatio exeg. de libertatis christianae notione in N. T. libris obvia, 1830 (an essay I have never had the good fortune to see).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Romans
8:21
1 Corinthians
10:29
2 Corinthians
3:17
Galatians
2:4; 5:1; 5:13
James
1:25; 2:12
1 Peter
2:16
2 Peter
2:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1657 matches the Greek ἐλευθερία (eleutheria),
which occurs 11 times in 10 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:21 - that the creation itself will also be freed from its bondage to decay [and gain entrance] into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 10:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:29 - and by conscience I mean for the sake of the other man’s, not yours. For [fn]why is my freedom [of choice] judged by another’s conscience [another’s ethics—another’s sense of right and wrong]?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:17 - Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty [emancipation from bondage, true freedom].

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:4 - My concern was because of the [fn]false brothers [those people masquerading as Christians] who had been secretly smuggled in [to the community of believers]. They had slipped in to spy on the freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to bring us back into bondage [under the Law of Moses].

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:1 -

It was for this freedom that Christ set us free [completely liberating us]; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery [which you once removed].

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:13 -

For you, my brothers, were called to freedom; only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the [fn]sinful nature (worldliness, selfishness), but through [fn]love serve and seek the best for one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:25 - But he who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and faithfully abides by it, not having become a [careless] listener who forgets but [fn]an active doer [who obeys], he will be blessed and favored by God in what he does [in his life of obedience].

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 2:12 - Speak and act [consistently] as people who are going to be judged by the law of liberty [that moral law that frees obedient Christians from the bondage of sin].

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:16 - Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover or pretext for evil, but [use it and live] as bond-servants of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:19 - They promise them liberty, when they themselves are the slaves of depravity—for by whatever anyone is defeated and overcome, to that [person, thing, philosophy, or concept] he is continually enslaved.
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