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

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11 - But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field may eat; you must do likewise 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 away to Azazel must wash his clothes, bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10 - So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, and you must proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; each one of you must return to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11 - That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:12 - Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you - you may eat its produce from the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:13 - "'In this year of jubilee you must each return to your property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, the house in the walled city will belong without reclaim to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31 - The houses of villages, however, which have no wall surrounding them must be considered as the field of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem - the sale of a house which is his property in a city - must revert in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:52 - but if only a few years remain until the jubilee, he must calculate for himself in keeping with the remaining years and refund it for his redemption.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:54

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:54 - If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:17 - If he consecrates his field in the jubilee year, the conversion value will stand,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:18 - but if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21 - When it reverts in the jubilee, the field will be holy to the LORD like a permanently dedicated field; it will become the priest's property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:23 - the priest will calculate for him the amount of its conversion value until the jubilee year, and he must pay the conversion value on that jubilee day as something that is holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - In the jubilee year the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, the one to whom it belongs as landed property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4 - And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe."

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:1 - At the end of every seven years you must declare a cancellation of debts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:2 - This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, for it is to be recognized as "the LORD's cancellation of debts."

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3 - You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite owes you, you must remit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9 - Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite and you do not lend him anything; he will cry out to the LORD against you and you will be regarded as having sinned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:10 - He commanded them: "At the end of seven years, at the appointed time of the cancellation of debts, at the Feast of Temporary Shelters,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:16 - The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by the LORD's battle cry, by the powerful breath from his nose.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:18 - Then the king prepared a large banquet for all his officials and his servants - it was actually Esther's banquet. He also set aside a holiday for the provinces, and he provided for offerings at the king's expense.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6 - No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 61:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:1 - The spirit of the sovereign LORD is upon me, because the LORD has chosen me. He has commissioned me to encourage the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:8 - The LORD spoke to Jeremiah after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to grant their slaves their freedom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:15 - Recently, however, you yourselves showed a change of heart and did what is pleasing to me. You granted your fellow countrymen their freedom and you made a covenant to that effect in my presence in the house that I have claimed for my own.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 - So I, the LORD, say: "You have not really obeyed me and granted freedom to your neighbor and fellow countryman. Therefore, I will grant you freedom, the freedom to die in war, or by starvation or disease. I, the LORD, affirm it! I will make all the kingdoms of the earth horrified at what happens to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:48

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:48 - Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed. ע (Ayin)

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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 will be his until the year of liberty; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance will only remain with his sons.

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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 measuring line in his hand, he measured 1,750 feet, and then he led me through water, which was ankle deep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20 - Even the wild animals cry out to you; for the river beds have dried up; fire has destroyed the grassy pastures.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:18 - On that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the dry stream beds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple of the LORD, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees.
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