ἐλευθερία
eleuthería · G1657 · Greek · 11 occurrences
Meanings
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to be free, freedom
The state of being free
ExamplesRomans 8:21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
1 Corinthians 10:29 Now by “conscience” I do not mean your own, but the other person’s; for why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?
2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐγώI, we 2
- δόξαglory 1
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἔχωto have 1
- νόμοςlaw, the Law 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κρίνωto judge 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἐπαγγέλλωto promise 1
- ἔχωto have 1
- κατασκοπέωto observe secretly 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- εἰςto 2
- ἐπίon 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- νόμοςlaw, the Law 1
- ὁthe (definite article) 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- To be free, freedom37.133
- Used in Galatians 5:1, where Paul declares that it was for freedom that Christ set believers free, and urges them to stand firm and not be subject again to a yoke of slavery, and in Romans 8:21, of creation itself being set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐλευθέρας, ἡ (ἐλεύθερος), liberty, (from Pindar, Herodotus down); in the N. T. a. liberty…
a. liberty to do or to omit things having no relation to salvation, 1 Cor 10:29; from the yoke of the Mosaic law, Gal 2:4; Gal 5:1, Gal 5:13; 1 Pet 2:16; from Jewish errors so blinding the mental vision that it does not discern the majesty of Christ, 2 Cor 3:17; freedom from the dominion of corrupt desires, so that we do by the free impulse of the soul what the will of God requires: ὁ νόμος τῆς ἐλευθερίας, i. e. the Christian religion, which furnishes that rule of right living by which the liberty just mentioned is attained, Jas 1:25; Jas 2:12; freedom from the restraints and miseries of earthly frailty: so in the expression ἡ ἐλευθερία τῆς δόξης (epexegetical genitive (Winer's Grammar, 531 (494))), manifested in the glorious condition of the future life, Rom 8:21.
b. fancied liberty, i. e. license, the liberty to do as one pleases, 2 Pet 2:19. J. C. Erler, Commentatio exeg. de libertatis christianae notione in N. T. libris obvia, 1830 (an essay I have never had the good fortune to see).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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