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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Free
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Revelation 19:18
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.
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8 occurrences in 8 verses.
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Exodus
66 verses
Leviticus
11 verses
Numbers
22 verses
Deuteronomy
44 verses
1 Samuel
11 verses
1 Chronicles
11 verses
2 Chronicles
11 verses
Job
22 verses
Psalms
33 verses
Isaiah
11 verses
Jeremiah
44 verses
Amos
11 verses
Matthew
22 verses
Mark
11 verses
John
43 verses
Acts
11 verses
Romans
88 verses
1 Corinthians
55 verses
Galatians
44 verses
Ephesians
11 verses
Colossians
11 verses
2 Thessalonians
11 verses
1 Peter
11 verses
Revelation
33 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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ἐλεύθερος
eleútheros · el-yoo'-ther-os
18 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 17:26Strong's last: Revelation 19:18
Open full G1658 profile →חׇפְשִׁי
chophshîy · khof-shee'
16 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
exempt (from bondage, tax or care)
Strong's KJV usage: free, liberty.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 21:2Strong's last: Jeremiah 34:14
Open full H2670 profile →ἐλευθερόω
eleutheróō · el-yoo-ther-o'-o
6 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
to liberate, i.e. (figuratively) to exempt (from moral, ceremonial or mortal liability)
Strong's KJV usage: :--deliver, make free.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 8:32Strong's last: Galatians 5:1
Open full G1659 profile →נָדִיב
nâdîyb · naw-deeb'
2 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
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).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 29:31Strong's last: Psalms 51:12
Open full H5081 profile →נָקָה
nâqâh · naw-kaw'
2 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 5:19Strong's last: Numbers 5:28
Open full H5352 profile →חִנָּם
chinnâm · khin-nawm'
1 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 21:11Strong's last: Exodus 21:11
Open full H2600 profile →חָפַשׁ
châphash · khaw-fash'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
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 →נָקִי
nâqîy · naw-kee'
1 times translated as this KJV form43 total Strong's occurrences
innocent
Strong's KJV usage: blameless, clean, clear, exempted, free, guiltless, innocent, quit.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 24:5Strong's last: Deuteronomy 24:5
Open full H5355 profile →פָּטַר
pâṭar · paw-tar'
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
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 →פָּתַח
pâthach · paw-thakh'
1 times translated as this KJV form144 total Strong's occurrences
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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G1658
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
G1658
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
G1658
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
G1659
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
English meaning and historical usage.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
free
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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