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Lexicon :: Strong's G859 - aphesis

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ἄφεσις
Transliteration
aphesis (Key)
Pronunciation
af'-es-is
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:509,88

Trench's Synonyms: xxxiii. ἄφεσις, πάρεσις.

Strong’s Definitions

ἄφεσις áphesis, af'-es-is; from G863; freedom; (figuratively) pardon:—deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's G859 in the following manner: remission (9x), forgiveness (6x), deliverance (1x), liberty (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's G859 in the following manner: remission (9x), forgiveness (6x), deliverance (1x), liberty (1x).

  1. release from bondage or imprisonment

  2. forgiveness or pardon, of sins (letting them go as if they had never been committed), remission of the penalty

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἄφεσις áphesis, af'-es-is; from G863; freedom; (figuratively) pardon:—deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission.
STRONGS G859:
ἄφεσις, -εως, ἡ, (ἀφίημι);
1. release, as from bondage, imprisonment, etc.: Luke 4:18 (Luke 4:19) (Isaiah 61:1f; Polybius 1, 79, 12, etc.).
2. ἄφεσις ἁμαρτιῶν forgiveness, pardon, of sins (properly, the letting them go, as if they had not been committed [see at length Trench, § xxxiii.]), remission of their penalty: Matthew 26:28; Mark 1:4; Luke 1:77; Luke 3:3; Luke 24:47; Acts 2:38; Acts 5:31; Acts 10:43; Acts 13:38; Acts 26:18; Colossians 1:14; τῶν παραπτωμάτων, Ephesians 1:7; and simply ἄφεσις: Mark 3:29; Hebrews 9:22; Hebrews 10:18 (φόνου, Plato, legg. 9, p. 869 d.; ἐγκλημάτων, Diodorus 20, 44 [so Dionysius Halicarnassus 50:8 § 50, see also 7, 33; 7, 46; especially 7, 64; ἁμαρτημάτων, Philo, vit. Moys. 3:17; others.]).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
61:1
Matthew
26:28
Mark
1:4; 3:29
Luke
1:77; 3:3; 4:18; 4:19; 24:47
Acts
2:38; 5:31; 10:43; 13:38; 26:18
Ephesians
1:7
Colossians
1:14
Hebrews
9:22; 10:18

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G859 matches the Greek ἄφεσις (aphesis),
which occurs 44 times in 39 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:2 - And Jothor the father-in-law of Moses, took Sepphora the wife of Moses after she had been sent away,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11 - But in the seventh year thou shalt let it rest, and leave it, and the poor of thy nation shall feed; and the wild beasts of the field shall eat that which remains: thus shalt thou do to thy vineyard and to thine oliveyard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:26 - And he that sends forth the goat that has been set apart to be let go, shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and afterwards shall enter into the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10 - And ye shall sanctify the year, the fiftieth year, and ye shall proclaim a release upon the land to all that inhabit it; it shall be given a year of release, a jubilee for you; and each one shall depart to his possession, and ye shall go each to his family.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11 - This is a jubilee of release, the year shall be to you the fiftieth year: ye shall not sow, nor reap the produce that comes of itself from the land, neither shall ye gather its dedicated fruits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:12 - For it is a jubilee of release; it shall be holy to you, ye shall eat its fruits off the fields.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:13 - In the year of the release even the jubilee of it, shall each one return to his possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - But if his hand have not prospered sufficiently, so as that he should restore the money to him, then he that bought the possessions shall have them till the sixth year of the release; and it shall go out in the release, and the owner shall return to his possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - And if it be not ransomed until there be completed of its time a full year, the house which is in the walled city shall be surely confirmed to him that bought it, throughout his generations; and it shall not go out in the release.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31 - But the houses in the villages which have not a wall round about them, shall be reckoned as the fields of the country: they shall always be redeemable, and they shall go out in the release.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - And if any one shall redeem a house of the Levites, then shall their sale of the houses of their possession go out in the release; because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - He shall be with thee as a hireling or a sojourner, he shall work for thee till the year of release:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - and he shall go out in the release, and his children with him; and he shall go to his family, he shall hasten back to his patrimony.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - then shall he calculate with his purchaser from the year that he sold himself to him until the year of release: and the money of his purchase shall be as that of a hireling, he shall be with him from year to year.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:52 - And if but a little time be left of the years to the year of release, then shall he reckon to him according to his years, and shall pay his ransom

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:54

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:54 - And if he do not pay his ransom accordingly, he shall go out in the year of his release, he and his children with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:17 - And if he should sanctify his field from the year of release, it shall stand according to his valuation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:18 - And if he should sanctify his field in the latter time after the release, the priest shall reckon to him the money for the remaining years, until the next year of release, and it shall be deducted as an equivalent from his full valuation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21 - But the field shall be holy to the Lord after the release, as separated land; the priest shall have possession of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:23 - the priest shall reckon to him the full valuation from the year of release, and he shall pay the valuation in that day as holy to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - And in the year of release the land shall be restored to the man of whom the other bought it, whose the possession of the land was.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4 - And if there shall be a release of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which the women marry, and their inheritance shall be taken away from the inheritance of our family's tribe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:1 - Every seven years thou shalt make a release.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:2 - And this is the ordinance of the release: thou shalt remit every private debt which thy neighbour owes thee, and thou shalt not ask payment of it from thy brother; for it has been called a release to the Lord thy God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3 - Of a stranger thou shalt ask again whatsoever he has of thine, but to thy brother thou shalt remit his debt to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9 - Take heed to thyself that there be not a secret thing in thine heart, an iniquity, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, draws nigh; and thine eye shall be evil to thy brother that is in want, and thou shalt not give to him, and he shall cry against thee to the Lord, and there shall be great sin in thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:10 - And Moses charged them in that day, saying, After seven years, in the time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:16 - And the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:18 - And the king made a banquet for all his friends and great men for seven days, and he highly celebrated the marriage of Esther; and he made a release to those who were under his dominion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6 - I have not chosen such a fast, saith the Lord; but do thou loose every burden of iniquity, do thou untie the knots of hard bargains, set the bruised free, and cancel every unjust account.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:1 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me; he has sent [fn] me to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:8 - (LXX 41:8) The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, after king Sedekias had concluded a covenant with the people, to proclaim a release;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:15 - (LXX 41:15) And this day they turned to do that which was right in my sight, to proclaim every one the release of his neighbour; and they had concluded a covenant before me, in the house whereon my name is called.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 - (LXX 41:17) Therefore thus said the Lord; Ye have not hearkened to me, to proclaim a release every one to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a release to you, to the sword, and to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will give you up to dispersion among all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:48

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:48 - Mine eye shall pour down torrents of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:17 - But if he give a gift to one of his servants, then it shall belong to him until the year of release; and then he shall restore it to the prince: but of the inheritance of his sons the possession shall continue to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:3 - in the direction in which a man went forth opposite; and there was a measuring line in his hand, and he measured a thousand cubits with the measure;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20 - And the cattle of the field have looked up to thee: for the [fn]fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:18 - (LXX 4:18) And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the [fn]fountains of Juda shall flow with water, and a fountain shall go forth of the house of the Lord, and water the valley of flags.
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