ἐλευθερία eleutheria

Greek word for “freedom” · Strong’s G1657 · used 11 times in 10 verses

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Meaning

ἐλευθερία, -ας, ἡ; liberty: with reference to the religious life, 5:1;

How it is translated

Glosses given for eleutheria in context, with how often each is used:

• freedom 11

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Galatians 5 (2), Romans 8 (1), 1 Corinthians 10 (1), 2 Corinthians 3 (1), Galatians 2 (1), James 1 (1), James 2 (1), 1 Peter 2 (1), 2 Peter 2 (1)

Forms

• ἐλευθερίαν 5
• ἐλευθερία 2
• ἐλευθερίᾳ 2
• ἐλευθερίας 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with eleutheria more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• δουλεία douleia “slavery” 2
• ἐλευθερόω eleutheroō “to set free” 2
• φθορά phthora “corruption” 2
• κρίνω krinō “to judge” 2
• δοῦλος doulos “slave” 2
• νόμος nomos “law” 2
• ὡς hōs “as/when” 2

Key verses

The verses using eleutheria that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Romans 8:21 — Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
• 1 Corinthians 10:29 — Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience?
• 2 Corinthians 3:17 — Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
• Galatians 2:4 — And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into…
• Galatians 5:1 — Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
• Galatians 5:13 — For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
• James 1:25 — But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed…
• James 2:12 — So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
• 1 Peter 2:16 — As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
• 2 Peter 2:19 — While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.