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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 Box Exo 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:2 - Now Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her home,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11 - but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:26 - And he who lets the goat go to Azazel shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10 - And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11 - That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:12 - For it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You may eat the produce of the field.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:13 - “In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - But if he does not have sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31 - But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them shall be classified with the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess shall be released in the jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired worker.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:52 - If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:54

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:54 - And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he and his children with him shall be released in the year of jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:17 - If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:18 - but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21 - But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the LORD, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:23 - then the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4 - And when the jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:1 - “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:2 - And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the LORD’s release has been proclaimed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3 - Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9 - Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly[fn] on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the LORD against you, and you be guilty of sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:10 - And Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at the Feast of Booths,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:16 - Then the channels of the sea were seen;
the foundations of the world were laid bare,
at the rebuke of the LORD,
at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:18 - Then the king gave a great feast for all his officials and servants; it was Esther’s feast. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces and gave gifts with royal generosity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6 - “Is not this the fast that I choose:
to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed[fn] go free,
and to break every yoke?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 61:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:1 - The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor;[fn]
he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:8 - The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:15 - You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes by proclaiming liberty, each to his neighbor, and you made a covenant before me in the house that is called by my name,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 - “Therefore, thus says the LORD: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim to you liberty to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the LORD. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:48

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:48 - my eyes flow with rivers of tears
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 46:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:17 - But if he makes a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty. Then it shall revert to the prince; surely it is his inheritance—it shall belong to his sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:3 - Going on eastward with a measuring line in his hand, the man measured a thousand cubits,[fn] and then led me through the water, and it was ankle-deep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20 - Even the beasts of the field pant for you
because the water brooks are dried up,
and fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:18 - “And in that day
the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
and the hills shall flow with milk,
and all the streambeds of Judah
shall flow with water;
and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD
and water the Valley of Shittim.
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