חׇפְשִׁי
chophshîy · H2670 · Hebrew · 17 occurrences
Meanings
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free
State of not being under the control of someone else
ExamplesExodus 21:2 “If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall leave as a free man without a payment to you.
Exodus 21:5 “But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not leave as a free man,’
Exodus 21:26 “And if someone strikes the eye of his male or female slave and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free on account of the eye.
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
Second object ofSecond object
9 occurrences in 2 groups
- שָׁלַחto send, to send away 8
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֶבֶדservant, slave 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 6
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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Contrasting words 1 word
- עָבַד ʻâbad · H5647 · to serve (someone), to make (someone) serve (someone else)
- The direct lexical opposite of עָבַד, denoting the state of being free from servitude or bondage rather than serving as a slave.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἐλεύθερος eleútheros · G1658 · free, to be free, free person
- Greek cognate denoting freedom from slavery or legal obligation, directly rendering Hebrew חׇפְשִׁי in LXX contexts of manumission and civil liberty (e.g. Exodus 21:2, Deuteronomy 15:12-13, Jeremiah 34:9-11).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Free002003002012
- The word denotes being free from bondage or obligation, describing liberty granted to a slave or exemption from a duty.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2670. chophshi חָפְשִׁי adjective free (Late Hebrew id.) — ׳ח Exo 21:5 Exo 21:10t. + Psa…
חָפְשִׁי adjective free (Late Hebrew id.) — ׳ח Exo 21:5 Exo 21:10t. + Psa 88:6; plural חָפְשִׁים Isa 58:6 Isa 58:4t. —
1 free from slavery: of Hebrew bondslave (male or female) set free in 7th year Exo 21:2, Exo 21:5 (JE), Deu 15:12-13, Deu 15:18, compare Jer 34:9-10, Jer 34:11, Jer 34:14, Jer 34:16; of slave (male or female) set free on account of injury done Exo 21:26-27, (JE); ח ׳עֶבֶד מֵאֲדֹנָיו Job 3:19 a slave is free from his master (i.e. in Sh®°ôl); but חָפְשִׁי בַּמֵּתִים Psa 88:6 among the dead I am free (i.e. adrift, cut off from Yahweh's remembrance); more Generally, חָפְשִׁים רְצוּצִים שַׁלַּח Isa 58:6 to let oppressed ones go free.
2 free from taxes, obligations, etc. בְּיְשְׂרָאֵל חָפְשִׁי יַעֲשֶׂה אָבִיו בֵּית אֵת 1Sa 17:25 his father's house will he make free in Israel.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), 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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