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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 - And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11 - but on the seventh year you shall let it [fn]rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. Thus you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:26 - “And the one who sent the goat out as the [fn]scapegoat shall wash his clothes and bathe his [fn]body with water; then afterward he shall come into the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10 - ‘You shall thus set apart as holy the fiftieth year and proclaim [fn]a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, [fn]and each of you shall return to his own possession of land, [fn]and each of you shall return to his family.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11 - ‘You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow; you shall not reap what grows of its own accord; you shall not gather in from its untrimmed 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 shall eat its produce out of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:13 -

‘On this year of jubilee, each of you shall return to his own possession of land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - ‘But if [fn]he has not found sufficient means to return it to himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall [fn]revert, that he may return to his possession of land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - ‘But if it is not redeemed for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not [fn]revert in the jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31 - ‘The houses of the villages, however, which have no surrounding wall, shall be considered [fn]as open fields; they have redemption rights and [fn]revert in the jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - ‘What, therefore, [fn]belongs to the Levites may be redeemed, and a house sale [fn]in the city of [fn]their possession [fn]reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons 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 man, as if he were a foreign resident; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - ‘He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his family, that he may return to the possession of the land of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - ‘He then with his purchaser shall calculate from the year when he sold himself to him up to the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall correspond to the number of years. It is like the days of a hired man that he shall be with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:52 - and if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall so calculate with him. In proportion to his years he shall return the amount for his redemption.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:54

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:54 - ‘Even if he is not redeemed by [fn]these means, he shall still go out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:17 - ‘If he sets apart his field as holy from the year of jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:18 - ‘If he sets apart his field as holy after the jubilee, however, then the priest shall calculate the price for [fn]him [fn]proportionate to the years that are left until the year of jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your valuation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21 - and it will be that when it [fn]reverts in the jubilee, the field shall be holy to Yahweh, like a field that is [fn]devoted; it shall be for the priest as his possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:23 - then the priest shall calculate for [fn]him the amount of your valuation up to the year of jubilee; and he shall on that day give your valuation as holy to Yahweh.

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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 the one from whom he bought it, to whom the possession of the land belongs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4 - “And when the jubilee of the sons of Israel [fn]comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so their inheritance will be withdrawn 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 [fn]grant a remission of debts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:2 - “And this is the manner of remission: every creditor shall release what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother because the remission from Yahweh has been proclaimed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:3

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9 - “Beware lest there be a vile [fn]thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of the remission of debts, is near,’ and your eye is hostile toward your needy brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to Yahweh against you, and it will be a sin in you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:10 - Then Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, at the time of the year of the remission of debts, 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 appeared,

The foundations of the world were [fn]laid bare

By the rebuke of Yahweh,

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 held a great feast, Esther’s feast, for all his princes and his servants; he also held a remission of taxes for the provinces and gave gifts according to the king’s hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6 -

“Is this not the fast which I choose,

To loosen the bonds of wickedness,

To release the bands of [fn]the yoke,

And to let the oppressed go free

And break every [fn]yoke?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 61:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:1 -

The Spirit of Lord Yahweh is upon me

Because Yahweh has anointed me

To bring good news to the [fn]afflicted;

He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,

To proclaim release to captives

And [fn]freedom to prisoners,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:8 -

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after King Zedekiah had cut a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim [fn]release to them:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:15 - “Although recently you had turned and done what is right in My sight, each man proclaiming [fn]release to his neighbor, and you had cut a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:17

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“Therefore thus says Yahweh, ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming [fn]release each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor. Behold, I am proclaiming a [fn]release to you,’ declares Yahweh, ‘to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:48

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:48 -

My [fn]eyes run down with streams of water

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 gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance shall be only his sons’; it shall belong to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:3 -

When the man went out toward the east with a line in his hand, he measured [fn]one thousand cubits, and he had me pass through the water, water reaching the ankles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20 -

Even the beasts of the field [fn]pant for You;

For the water brooks are dried up,

And fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:18 -

And it will be in that day,

That the mountains will drip with [fn]sweet wine,

And the hills will flow with milk,

And all the brooks of Judah will flow with water;

And a spring will go out from the house of Yahweh

To water the valley of [fn]Shittim.

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