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Lexicon :: Strong's H2670 - ḥāp̄šî

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חָפְשִׁי
Transliteration
ḥāp̄šî
Pronunciation
khof-shee'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 717c

Strong’s Definitions

חׇפְשִׁי chophshîy, khof-shee'; from H2666; exempt (from bondage, tax or care):—free, liberty.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's H2670 in the following manner: free (16x), liberty (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's H2670 in the following manner: free (16x), liberty (1x).

  1. free

    1. free (from slavery)

    2. free (from taxes or obligations)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חׇפְשִׁי chophshîy, khof-shee'; from H2666; exempt (from bondage, tax or care):—free, liberty.
STRONGS H2670: Abbreviations
† חָפְשִׁי adjective free (Late Hebrew id.) — ח׳ Exodus 21:5 + 10 times + Psalm 88:6; plural חָפְשִׁים Isaiah 58:6 + 4 times —
1. free from slavery: of Hebrew bondslave (male or female) set free in 7th year Exodus 21:2, 5 (JE), Deuteronomy 15:12, 13, 18, compare Jeremiah 34:9, 10, 11, 14, 16; of slave (male or female) set free on account of injury done Exodus 21:26, 27 (JE); מֵאֲדֹנָיו עֶבֶד ח׳ Job 3:19 a slave is free from his master (i.e. in She’ôl); but בַּמֵּתִים חָפְשִׁי Psalm 88:6 among the dead I am free (i.e. adrift, cut off from Yahweh's remembrance); more generally, שַׁלַּח רְצוּצִים חָפְשִׁים Isaiah 58:6 to let oppressed ones go free.
2. free from taxes, obligations, etc. אֵת בֵּית אָבִיו יַעֲשֶׂה חָפְשִׁי בְּיְשְׂרָאֵל 1 Samuel 17:25 his father's house will he make free in Israel.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

21:2; 21:5; 21:5; 21:26; 21:27

Deuteronomy

15:12; 15:13; 15:18

1 Samuel

17:25

Job

3:19

Psalms

88:6; 88:6

Isaiah

58:6; 58:6

Jeremiah

34:9; 34:10; 34:11; 34:14; 34:16

H2670

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2670 matches the Hebrew חָפְשִׁי (ḥāp̄šî),
which occurs 17 times in 17 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:2 - "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:5 - But if the servant should declare, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:26 - "If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27 - If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12 - If your fellow Hebrew - whether male or female - is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:13 - If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:18 - You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:25 - The men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father's house exempt from tax obligations in Israel."

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:19 - Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:5 - Who let the wild donkey go free? Who released the bonds of the donkey,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:5 - adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.

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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 Jer 34:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:9 - Everyone was supposed to free their male and female Hebrew slaves. No one was supposed to keep a fellow Judean enslaved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:10 - All the people and their leaders had agreed to this. They had agreed to free their male and female slaves and not keep them enslaved any longer. They originally complied with the covenant and freed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:11 - But later they had changed their minds. They had taken back their male and female slaves that they had freed and forced them to be slaves again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:14 - "Every seven years each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you for six years, you shall set them free." But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:16 - But then you turned right around and showed that you did not honor me. Each of you took back your male and female slaves whom you had freed as they desired, and you forced them to be your slaves again.
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