Word

ἐλευθερόω

eleutheróō · G1659 · Greek · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

to set free, to release

(Derivative of ἐλεύθερος ‘free,’) To cause someone to be set free or to be released

Examples
Romans 6:18 and after being freed from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.
Romans 6:22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.
Romans 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.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

7 occurrences in 6 groups

Not stated (participle) 2
ἀλήθειαtruth 1
νόμοςlaw, the Law 1
υἱόςson 1
ΧριστόςChrist, Messiah 1
αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

4 occurrences in 2 groups

σύyou 3
ἐγώI, we 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 5 groups

ἀπόfrom+ ἁμαρτίαsin 2
εἰςto+ ἐλευθερίαfreedom 1
ἐνin+ ΧριστόςChrist, Messiah 1
ἀπόfrom+ δουλείαslavery 1
ἀπόfrom+ νόμοςlaw, the Law 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 set free, to release37.135: Used in John 8:32, where Jesus tells His hearers that they will know the truth, and the truth will set them free, and repeatedly in Romans 6:18, 6:22, and 8:2 of believers being set free from sin and from the law of sin and death.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἐλεύθερος eleútheros · G1658 · free, to be free, free person · 23×ἐλευθερία eleuthería · G1657 · to be free, freedom · 11×ἐλευθερόωeleutheróō · G1659ἀπελεύθερος apeleútheros · G558 · freedman, free person · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐλευθέρω: future ἐλευθερώσω; 1 aorist ἠλευθερωσα; passive, 1 aorist ἠλευθερωθην; 1 future…

ἐλευθέρω: future ἐλευθερώσω; 1 aorist ἠλευθερωσα; passive, 1 aorist ἠλευθερωθην; 1 future ἐλευθερωθήσομαι; (ἐλεύθερος); (from Aeschylus down); to make free, set at liberty: from the dominion of sin, Jn 8:32, Jn 8:36; τινα ἀπό τίνος, one from another's control (Winers Grammar, 196f (185); Buttmann, 157f (138)): ἀπό τοῦ νόμου τάς ἁμαρτίας καί τοῦ θανάτου (see νόμος, 1), Rom 8:2; ἀπό τάς ἁμαρτίας, from the dominion of sin, Rom 6:18, Rom 6:22; ἀπό τάς δουλείας τῆς φθορᾶς εἰς τήν ἐλευθερίαν, to liberate from bondage (see δουλεία) and to bring (transfer) into etc. (see εἰς, C. 1), Rom 8:21; with a dative commodi, τῇ ἐλευθερία, that we might be possessors of liberty, Gal 5:1; cf. Buttmann, § 133, 12 (and Lightfoot at the passage).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Release, Set Free7 occurrences

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