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Lexicon :: Strong's G1657 - eleutheria

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ἐλευθερία
Transliteration
eleutheria (Key)
Pronunciation
el-yoo-ther-ee'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TDNT Reference: 2:487,224

Strong’s Definitions

ἐλευθερία eleuthería, el-yoo-ther-ee'-ah; from G1658; freedom (legitimate or licentious, chiefly moral or ceremonial):—liberty.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's G1657 in the following manner: liberty (11x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's G1657 in the following manner: liberty (11x).

  1. liberty to do or to omit things having no relationship to salvation

  2. fancied liberty

    1. licence, the liberty to do as one pleases

  3. true liberty is living as we should not as we please

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐλευθερία eleuthería, el-yoo-ther-ee'-ah; from G1658; freedom (legitimate or licentious, chiefly moral or ceremonial):—liberty.
STRONGS G1657:
ἐλευθερία, -ας, ἡ, (ἐλεύθερος), liberty, [from Pindar, Herodotus down]; in the N. T.
a. liberty to do or to omit things having no relation to salvation, 1 Corinthians 10:29; from the yoke of the Mosaic law, Galatians 2:4; Galatians 5:1, 13; 1 Peter 2:16; from Jewish errors so blinding the mental vision that it does not discern the majesty of Christ, 2 Corinthians 3:17; freedom from the dominion of corrupt desires, so that we do by the free impulse of the soul what the will of God requires: ὁ νόμος τῆς ἐλευθερίας, i. e. the Christian religion, which furnishes that rule of right living by which the liberty just mentioned is attained, James 1:25; James 2:12; freedom from the restraints and miseries of earthly frailty: so in the expression ἡ ἐλευθερία τῆς δόξης (epexegetical genitive [Winer's Grammar, 531 (494)]), manifested in the glorious condition of the future life, Romans 8:21.
b. fancied liberty, i. e. license, the liberty to do as one pleases, 2 Peter 2:19. J. C. Erler, Commentatio exeg. de libertatis christianae notione in N. T. libris obvia, 1830 (an essay I have never had the good fortune to see).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Romans
8:21
1 Corinthians
10:29
2 Corinthians
3:17
Galatians
2:4; 5:1; 5:13
James
1:25; 2:12
1 Peter
2:16
2 Peter
2:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1657 matches the Greek ἐλευθερία (eleutheria),
which occurs 11 times in 10 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:21 - that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 10:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:29 - I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else’s conscience?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:17 - Now the Lord[fn] is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:4 - Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery—

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:1 - For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:13 - For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:25 - But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 2:12 - So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:16 - Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants[fn] of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:19 - They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves[fn] of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.
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