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Lexicon :: Strong's H2670 - ḥāp̄šî

Aa
חָפְשִׁי
Transliteration
ḥāp̄šî
Pronunciation
khof-shee'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 717c

Strong’s Definitions

חׇפְשִׁי chophshîy, khof-shee'; from H2666; exempt (from bondage, tax or care):—free, liberty.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's H2670 in the following manner: free (16x), liberty (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's H2670 in the following manner: free (16x), liberty (1x).

  1. free

    1. free (from slavery)

    2. free (from taxes or obligations)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חׇפְשִׁי chophshîy, khof-shee'; from H2666; exempt (from bondage, tax or care):—free, liberty.
STRONGS H2670: Abbreviations
† חָפְשִׁי adjective free (Late Hebrew id.) — ח׳ Exodus 21:5 + 10 times + Psalm 88:6; plural חָפְשִׁים Isaiah 58:6 + 4 times —
1. free from slavery: of Hebrew bondslave (male or female) set free in 7th year Exodus 21:2, 5 (JE), Deuteronomy 15:12, 13, 18, compare Jeremiah 34:9, 10, 11, 14, 16; of slave (male or female) set free on account of injury done Exodus 21:26, 27 (JE); מֵאֲדֹנָיו עֶבֶד ח׳ Job 3:19 a slave is free from his master (i.e. in She’ôl); but בַּמֵּתִים חָפְשִׁי Psalm 88:6 among the dead I am free (i.e. adrift, cut off from Yahweh's remembrance); more generally, שַׁלַּח רְצוּצִים חָפְשִׁים Isaiah 58:6 to let oppressed ones go free.
2. free from taxes, obligations, etc. אֵת בֵּית אָבִיו יַעֲשֶׂה חָפְשִׁי בְּיְשְׂרָאֵל 1 Samuel 17:25 his father's house will he make free in Israel.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

21:2; 21:5; 21:5; 21:26; 21:27

Deuteronomy

15:12; 15:13; 15:18

1 Samuel

17:25

Job

3:19

Psalms

88:6; 88:6

Isaiah

58:6; 58:6

Jeremiah

34:9; 34:10; 34:11; 34:14; 34:16

H2670

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2670 matches the Hebrew חָפְשִׁי (ḥāp̄šî),
which occurs 17 times in 17 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:2 - If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:5 - But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:26 - If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27 - Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12 - If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:13 - And when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his hands:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:18 - Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:25 - And the men of Israel said, Have you seen this man? Clearly he has come out to put shame on Israel: and it is certain that if any man overcomes him, the king will give that man great wealth, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's family free in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:19 - The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:5 - Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:5 - My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6 - Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:9 - That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:10 - And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:11 - But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:14 - At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:16 - But again you have put shame on my name, and you have taken back, every one his man-servant and his servant-girl, whom you had sent away free, and you have put them under the yoke again to be your servants and servant-girls.
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