Exodus 21:2
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
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If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Read in context →That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Read in context →8 occurrences in 8 verses.
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eleútheros · el-yoo'-ther-os
unrestrained (to go at pleasure), i.e. (as a citizen) not a slave (whether freeborn or manumitted), or (genitive case) exempt (from obligation or liability)
Strong's KJV usage: :--free (man, woman), at liberty.
Strong's first: Matthew 17:26Strong's last: Revelation 19:18
Open full G1658 profile →chophshîy · khof-shee'
exempt (from bondage, tax or care)
Strong's KJV usage: free, liberty.
Strong's first: Exodus 21:2Strong's last: Jeremiah 34:14
Open full H2670 profile →eleutheróō · el-yoo-ther-o'-o
to liberate, i.e. (figuratively) to exempt (from moral, ceremonial or mortal liability)
Strong's KJV usage: :--deliver, make free.
Strong's first: John 8:32Strong's last: Galatians 5:1
Open full G1659 profile →nâdîyb · naw-deeb'
properly, voluntary, i.e. generous; hence, magnanimous; as noun, a grandee (sometimes a tyrant)
Strong's KJV usage: free, liberal (things), noble, prince, willing (hearted).
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 29:31Strong's last: Psalms 51:12
Open full H5081 profile →nâqâh · naw-kaw'
to be (or make) clean (literally or figuratively); by implication (in an adverse sense) to be bare, i.e. extirpated
Strong's KJV usage: acquit × at all, × altogether, be blameless, cleanse, (be) clear(-ing), cut off, be desolate, be free, be (hold) guiltless, be (hold) innocent, × by no means, be quit, be (leave) unpunished, × utterly, × wholly.
Strong's first: Numbers 5:19Strong's last: Numbers 5:28
Open full H5352 profile →chinnâm · khin-nawm'
gratis, i.e. devoid of cost, reason or advantage
Strong's KJV usage: without a cause (cost, wages), causeless, to cost nothing, free(-ly), innocent, for nothing (nought, in vain.
Strong's first: Exodus 21:11Strong's last: Exodus 21:11
Open full H2600 profile →châphash · khaw-fash'
to spread loose; figuratively, to manumit
Strong's KJV usage: be free.
Strong's first: Leviticus 19:20Strong's last: Leviticus 19:20
Open full H2666 profile →nâqîy · naw-kee'
innocent
Strong's KJV usage: blameless, clean, clear, exempted, free, guiltless, innocent, quit.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 24:5Strong's last: Deuteronomy 24:5
Open full H5355 profile →pâṭar · paw-tar'
to cleave or burst through, i.e. (causatively) to emit, whether literal or figurative (gape)
Strong's KJV usage: dismiss, free, let (shoot) out, slip away.
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 9:33Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 9:33
Open full H6362 profile →pâthach · paw-thakh'
to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve
Strong's KJV usage: appear, break forth, draw (out), let go free, (en-) grave(-n), loose (self), (be, be set) open(-ing), put off, ungird, unstop, have vent.
Strong's first: Psalms 105:20Strong's last: Psalms 105:20
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If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.
And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.
Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
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FREE, noun [Heb. See Frank.]
1. Being at liberty; not being under necessity or restraint, physical or moral; a word of general application to the body, the will or mind, and to corporations.
2. In government, not enslaved; not in a state of vassalage or dependence; subject only to fixed laws, made by consent, and to a regular administration of such laws; not subject to the arbitrary will of a sovereign or lord; as a free state, nation or people.
3. Instituted by a free people, or by consent or choice of those who are to be subjects, and securing private rights and privileges by fixed laws and principles; not arbitrary or despotic; as a free constitution or government.
There can be no free government without a democratical branch in the constitution.
4. Not imprisoned, confined or under arrest; as, the prisoner is set free
5. Unconstrained; unrestrained; not under compulsion or control. A man is free to pursue his own choice; he enjoys free will.
6. Permitted; allowed; open; not appropriated; as, places of honor and confidence are free to all; we seldom hear of a commerce perfectly free
7. Not obstructed; as, the water has a free passage or channel; the house is open to a free current of air.
8. Licentious; unrestrained. The reviewer is very free in his censures.
9. Open; candid; frank; ingenuous; unreserved; as, we had a free conversation together.
Will you be free and candid to your friend?
10. Liberal in expenses; not parsimonious; as a free purse; a man is free to give to all useful institutions.
11. Gratuitous; not gained by importunity or purchase. He made him a free offer of his services. It is a free gift. The salvation of men is of free grace.
12. Clear of crime or offense; guiltless; innocent.
My hands are guilty, but my heart is free
13. Not having feeling or suffering; clear; exempt; with from; as free from pain or disease; free from remorse.
14. Not encumbered with; as free from a burden.
15. Open to all, without restriction or without expense; as a free school.
16. Invested with franchises; enjoying certain immunities; with of; as a man free of the city of London.
17. Possessing without vassalage or slavish conditions; as free of his farm.
18. Liberated from the government or control of parents, or of a guardian or master. A son or an apprentice, when of age, is free
19. Ready; eager; not dull; acting without spurring or shipping; as a free horse.
20. Genteel; charming. [Not in use.]
FREE, verb transitive
1. To remove from a thing any encumbrance or obstruction; to disengage from; to rid; to strip; to clear; as, to free the body from clothes; to free the feet from fetters; to free a channel from sand.
2. To set at liberty; to rescue or release from slavery, captivity or confinement; to loose. The prisoner is freed from arrest.
3. To disentangle; to disengage.
4. To exempt.
He that is dead is freed from sin. Romans 6:18.
5. To manumit; to release from bondage; as, to free a slave.
6. To clear from water, as a ship by pumping.
7. To release from obligation or duty.
To free from or free of, is to rid of, by removing, in any manner.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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