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Lexicon :: Strong's G859 - aphesis

Aa
ἄφεσις
Transliteration
aphesis (Key)
Pronunciation
af'-es-is
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:509,88

Trench's Synonyms: xxxiii. ἄφεσις, πάρεσις.

Strong’s Definitions

ἄφεσις áphesis, af'-es-is; from G863; freedom; (figuratively) pardon:—deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's G859 in the following manner: remission (9x), forgiveness (6x), deliverance (1x), liberty (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's G859 in the following manner: remission (9x), forgiveness (6x), deliverance (1x), liberty (1x).

  1. release from bondage or imprisonment

  2. forgiveness or pardon, of sins (letting them go as if they had never been committed), remission of the penalty

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἄφεσις áphesis, af'-es-is; from G863; freedom; (figuratively) pardon:—deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission.
STRONGS G859:
ἄφεσις, -εως, ἡ, (ἀφίημι);
1. release, as from bondage, imprisonment, etc.: Luke 4:18 (Luke 4:19) (Isaiah 61:1f; Polybius 1, 79, 12, etc.).
2. ἄφεσις ἁμαρτιῶν forgiveness, pardon, of sins (properly, the letting them go, as if they had not been committed [see at length Trench, § xxxiii.]), remission of their penalty: Matthew 26:28; Mark 1:4; Luke 1:77; Luke 3:3; Luke 24:47; Acts 2:38; Acts 5:31; Acts 10:43; Acts 13:38; Acts 26:18; Colossians 1:14; τῶν παραπτωμάτων, Ephesians 1:7; and simply ἄφεσις: Mark 3:29; Hebrews 9:22; Hebrews 10:18 (φόνου, Plato, legg. 9, p. 869 d.; ἐγκλημάτων, Diodorus 20, 44 [so Dionysius Halicarnassus 50:8 § 50, see also 7, 33; 7, 46; especially 7, 64; ἁμαρτημάτων, Philo, vit. Moys. 3:17; others.]).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
61:1
Matthew
26:28
Mark
1:4; 3:29
Luke
1:77; 3:3; 4:18; 4:19; 24:47
Acts
2:38; 5:31; 10:43; 13:38; 26:18
Ephesians
1:7
Colossians
1:14
Hebrews
9:22; 10:18

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G859 matches the Greek ἄφεσις (aphesis),
which occurs 44 times in 39 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:2 - And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11 - but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:26 - And he that letteth go the goat for Azazel shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10 - And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11 - A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:12 - For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:13 - In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - But if he be not able to get it back for himself, then that which he hath sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31 - But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - And if one of the Levites redeem, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - then shall he go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:52 - And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his years shall he give back the price of his redemption.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:54

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:54 - And if he be not redeemed by these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his children with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:17 - If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy estimation it shall stand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:18 - But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain unto the year of jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from thy estimation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21 - but the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto Jehovah, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest’s.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:23 - then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation unto the year of jubilee: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - In the year of jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongeth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4 - And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:1 - At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:2 - And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Jehovah’s release hath been proclaimed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3 - Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it: but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9 - Beware that there be not a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto Jehovah against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:10 - And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:16 -
Then the channels of the sea appeared,
The foundations of the world were laid bare,
By the rebuke of Jehovah,
At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:18 - Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the bounty of the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6 - Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:1 - The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:8 - The word that came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:15 - And ye were now turned, and had done that which is right in mine eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 - Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ye have not hearkened unto me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim unto you a liberty, saith Jehovah, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:48

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:48 -
Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:17 - But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:3 - When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20 - Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:18 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall flow with waters; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
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