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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 - Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11 - But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:26 - And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10 - And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11 - A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:12 - For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:13 - In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31 - But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:52 - And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:54

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:54 - And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:17 - If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:18 - But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21 - But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:23 - Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4 - And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away 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 thou shalt make 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 that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3 - Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9 - Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:10 - And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:16 - And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking 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 made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6 - Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye 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 hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:8 - This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:15 - And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 - Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:48

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:48 - Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for 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 give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:3 - And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20 - The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:18 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
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