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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.
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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 shall go free, without paying anything.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:5 - “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:26 - “An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27 - And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12 - If any of your people—Hebrew men or women—sell themselves to you and serve you six years, in the seventh year you must let them go free.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:13 - And when you release them, do not send them away empty-handed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:18 - Do not consider it a hardship to set your servant free, because their service to you these six years has been worth twice as much as that of a hired hand. And 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 - Now the Israelites had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:19 - The small and the great are there, and the slaves are freed from their owners.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:5 - “Who let the wild donkey go free? Who untied its ropes?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:5 - I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 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 Box Jer 34:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:9 - Everyone was to free their Hebrew slaves, both male and female; no one was to hold a fellow Hebrew in bondage.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:10 - So all the officials and people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their male and female slaves and no longer hold them in bondage. They agreed, and set them free.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:11 - But afterward they changed their minds and took back the slaves they had freed and enslaved them again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:14 - ‘Every seventh year each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you six years, you must let them go free.’[fn] Your ancestors, however, did not listen to me or pay attention to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:16 - But now you have turned around and profaned my name; each of you has taken back the male and female slaves you had set free to go where they wished. You have forced them to become your slaves again.
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