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Strong G1657ἐλευθερία

freedom

Transliteration
eleutheria
Pronunciation
el-yoo-ther-ee'-ah
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From G1658; freedom (legitimate or licentious chiefly moral or ceremonial): - liberty.

Detailed definition

ἐλευθερία, -ας, ἡ
[in LXX: Lev.19:20 (חֻפְשָׁה), 1Es.4:49 Est.4:53, Sir.7:21, Sir.33:25, 1Ma.14:27, 3Ma.3:28 *;]
liberty: with reference to the religious life, 1Co.10:29, 2Co.3:17, Gal.2:4 5:1, 1Pe.2:16, 2Pe.2:19; ὁ νόμος τῆς ἐ., Jas.1:25 2:12; ἡ ἐ. τῆς δόξης, Rom.8:21; ἐπ᾽ ἐ., Gal.5:13 (on which formula, cf. Deiss., LAE, 327 ff.; Cremer, 251).†
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In the Bible

Strong G1657 appears in 10 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • liberty10

First verses

  1. Romans 8:21
    Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
  2. 1 Corinthians 10:29
    Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience?
  3. 2 Corinthians 3:17
    Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
  4. Galatians 2:4
    And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
  5. Galatians 5:1
    Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
  6. Galatians 5:13
    For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
  7. James 1:25
    But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
  8. James 2:12
    So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
  9. 1 Peter 2:16
    As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
  10. 2 Peter 2:19
    While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἐλευθ-ερία,
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, freedom, liberty, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.61, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.62, 95; ἐλευθερίας φῶς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 809 (Lyric poetry), compare 863 (_anapaest meter_))]; δι᾽ ἐλευθερίας μόλις ἐξῆλθες, i.e. μόλις ἠλευθερώθης, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1509 (_anapaest meter_); ὑπῆρξαν ἐλευθερίας τῆ Ἑλλάδι 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.142)]; freedom from a thing, ἀπὸ πασῶν ἀρχῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 698a; τινός [prev. author] “R.” 329c, compare “Anthologia Graeca” 6.228 (from Adaeus).)]
b manumission, ἡ εἰκοστὴ τῶν ἐ.,= Latin vicesima manumissionum, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“BGU” 326ii 11 (2nd c.AD).)]
2 licence, ἀκολασία καὶ ἐ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 492c)]; of Diogenes, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 6.185c.)]
3 later, ={ἐλευθεριότης}, [Refs (“UPZ” 62.7.)]
4 name of a dance, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.293.)]