חׇפְשִׁי chophshi
Hebrew word for “free” · Strong’s H2670 · used 17 times in 17 verses
Meaning
1) free; 1a) free (from slavery); 1b) free (from taxes or obligations)
How it is translated
Glosses given for chophshi in context, with how often each is used:
- free person 8
- free people 5
- free 3
- person set free 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Jeremiah 34 (5), Exodus 21 (4), Deuteronomy 15 (3), 1 Samuel 17 (1), Job 3 (1), Job 39 (1), Psalms 88 (1), Isaiah 58 (1)
Forms
- חפשׁי 9
- חפשׁים 5
- לחפשׁי 3
Words used with it
Words that share verses with chophshi more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- שָׁלַח shalach “to send” 12
- עֶבֶד eved “servant/slave” 9
- עָבַד avad “to serve” 6
- עִבְרִי ivri “Hebrew” 4
- שִׁפְחָה shiphchah “maidservant” 4
- שֵׁשׁ shesh “six” 4
- כָּבַשׁ kavash “to subdue” 2
- שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 4
- אוֹ o “or” 3
- עִם im “with” 4
- אָמָה amah “maidservant” 2
- מָכַר makhar “to sell” 2
Key verses
The verses using chophshi that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Exodus 21:2 — If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
- Exodus 21:26 — And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
- Deuteronomy 15:12 — And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from…
- 1 Samuel 17:25 — And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king…
- Job 3:19 — The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
- Job 39:5 — Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
- Psalms 88:5 — Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
- Isaiah 58:6 — Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every…
- Jeremiah 34:9 — That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to…
- Jeremiah 34:11 — But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and…
- Jeremiah 34:14 — At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him…
- Jeremiah 34:16 — But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and…
See all 17 verses in the Word Atlas
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.