ἐλεύθερος eleutheros

Greek word for “free/freedom” · Strong’s G1658 · used 23 times in 23 verses

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Meaning

ἐλεύθερος, -α, -ον; free;

How it is translated

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

• free 22
• free? 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Galatians 4 (5), 1 Corinthians 7 (3), John 8 (2), 1 Corinthians 9 (2), Matthew 17 (1), Romans 6 (1), Romans 7 (1), 1 Corinthians 12 (1), Galatians 3 (1), Ephesians 6 (1)

Forms

• ἐλεύθερος 7
• ἐλεύθεροι 5
• ἐλευθέρας 4
• ἐλευθέρα 3
• ἐλεύθεροί 1
• Ἐλεύθερος 1
• ἐλευθέρους 1
• ἐλευθέρων 1

Words used with it

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

• δοῦλος doulos “slave” 11
• παιδίσκη paidiskē “maidservant” 4
• Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην Hellēn “Greek, Gentile” 3
• ἔνι eni “there is” 2
• ἐάν ean “if” 4
• υἱός uhios “son” 4
• χιλίαρχος chiliarchos “military officer” 2
• ἰσχυρός ischuros “strong” 2
• πλούσιος plousios “rich” 2
• Ἰουδαῖος Ioudaios “Jew” 3
• εἴτε eite “whether” 2
• μικρός mikros “small” 2

Key verses

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

• John 8:33 — They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
• 1 Corinthians 7:22 — For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant.
• 1 Corinthians 9:1 — Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
• 1 Corinthians 9:19 — For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
• 1 Corinthians 12:13 — For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one…
• Galatians 3:28 — 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.
• Galatians 4:26 — But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
• Colossians 3:11 — Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
• 1 Peter 2:16 — As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
• Revelation 6:15 — And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid…
• Revelation 13:16 — And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
• 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…

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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.