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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 - After Moses had sent away his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro received her

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11 - but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:26 - “The man who releases the goat as a scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10 - Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11 - The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:12 - For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:13 - “ ‘In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to their own property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and the buyer’s descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31 - But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as belonging to the open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - So the property of the Levites is redeemable—that is, a house sold in any town they hold—and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property of their ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker for that number of years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:52 - If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they are to compute that and pay for their redemption accordingly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:54

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:54 - “ ‘Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:17 - If they dedicate a field during the Year of Jubilee, the value that has been set remains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:18 - But if they dedicate a field after the Jubilee, the priest will determine the value according to the number of years that remain until the next Year of Jubilee, and its set value will be reduced.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21 - When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it will become priestly property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:23 - the priest will determine its value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the owner must pay its value on that day as something holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - In the Year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, the one whose land it was.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4 - When the Year of Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their property will be taken from the tribal inheritance of our ancestors.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:1

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:2 - This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the LORD’s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3 - You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9 - Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near,” so that you do not show ill will toward the needy among your fellow Israelites and give them nothing. They may then appeal to the LORD against you, and you will be found guilty of sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:10 - Then Moses commanded them: “At the end of every seven years, in the year for canceling debts, during the Festival of Tabernacles,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:16 - The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of breath from his nostrils.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:18 - And the king gave a great banquet, Esther’s banquet, for all his nobles and officials. He proclaimed a holiday throughout the provinces and distributed gifts with royal liberality.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6 - “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:1 - The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:8 - The word came to Jeremiah from the LORD after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom for the slaves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:15 - Recently you repented and did what is right in my sight: Each of you proclaimed freedom to your own people. You even made a covenant before me in the house that bears my Name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 - “Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed me; you have not proclaimed freedom to your own people. So I now proclaim ‘freedom’ for you, declares the LORD—‘freedom’ to fall by the sword, plague and famine. I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:48

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:17 - If, however, he makes a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, the servant may keep it until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs to his sons only; it is theirs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:3

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20 - Even the wild animals pant for you; the streams of water have dried up and fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:18 - “In that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk; all the ravines of Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the LORD’s house and will water the valley of acacias.[fn]
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