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ἀπελεύθερος

apeleútheros · G558 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. freedman, free person

    A person who has previously been a slave but is now released from slavery

    Examples

    1 Corinthians 7:22 For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave, is the Lord’s freed person; likewise the one who was called as free, is Christ’s slave.

How it’s used In 2 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

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Near synonyms 1 word
Λιβερτῖνος Libertînos · G3032 · free man
Both terms denote the same social and legal status, a freed slave; they differ in origin and register, one a native Greek term and the other, Λιβερτῖνος, a Latin loanword.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Freedman, free person87.85
In 1 Corinthians 7:22, Paul writes, “the one who was called in the Lord as a slave, is the Lord's freed person (apeleútheros); likewise the one who was called as free, is Christ's slave,” naming the specific social status of a former slave now released.
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×ἐλευθερόω eleutheróō · G1659 · to set free, to release · 7×ἀπελεύθεροςapeleútheros · G558
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀπελευθερου, ὁ, ἡ, a manumitted slave, a freedman (ἀπό, cf. German los (set free from…
ἀπελευθερου, ὁ, ἡ, a manumitted slave, a freedman (ἀπό, cf. German los (set free from bondage)): τοῦ κυρίου, presented with (spiritual) freedom by the Lord, 1 Cor 7:22. (In Greek writings from Xenophon, and Plato down.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Slave, Free1 occurrence

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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