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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 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. In like manner 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 he who released the goat as the scapegoat 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 all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11 - ‘That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:12 - ‘For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall 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, each of you shall return to his possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - ‘But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - ‘But if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to him who bought it, 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 - ‘However the houses of villages which have no wall around them shall be counted as the fields of the country. 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 a man purchases a house from the Levites, then the house that was sold in the city of his possession shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses in 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 - ‘As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - ‘And then he shall depart from you—he and his children with him—and shall return to his own family. He shall return to the possession of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - ‘Thus he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the number of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; it shall be according to the time of a hired servant for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:52 - ‘And if there remain but a few years until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according to his years he shall repay him the price of his redemption.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:54

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:54 - ‘And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee—he and his children with him.

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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, according to your valuation it 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 reckon to him the money due according to the years that remain till 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 - ‘but the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a devoted field; it shall be the possession of the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:23 - ‘then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation, up to the Year of Jubilee, and he shall give your valuation on that day as a holy offering 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 the one who owned the land as a possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4 - “And when the Jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then 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 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 of debts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:2 - “And this is the form of the release: Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor or 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 you may require it; but you shall give up your claim to what is owed by your brother,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9 - “Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,’ and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing, and he cry out to the LORD against you, and it become sin among you.

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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, at the appointed time in the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles,

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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 uncovered,
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 made a great feast, the Feast of Esther, for all his officials and servants; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces and gave gifts according to the generosity of a king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6 - “Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
To loose the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the heavy burdens,
To let the oppressed go free,
And that you 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 preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:8

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:15 - ‘Then you recently turned and did what was right in My sight—every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor; and you 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 says the LORD: ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and every one to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim liberty to you,’ says the LORD—‘to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine! And I will deliver you to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:48

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:48 - My eyes overflow 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 gives a gift of some of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty, after which it shall return to the prince. But his inheritance shall belong to his sons; it shall become theirs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:3 - And when the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the water came up to my ankles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20 - The beasts of the field also cry out to You,
For the water brooks are dried up,
And fire has devoured the open pastures.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:18 - And it will come to pass in that day
That the mountains shall drip with new wine,
The hills shall flow with milk,
And all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with water;
A fountain shall flow from the house of the LORD
And water the Valley of Acacias.
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