Strong's Lexicon
G1657 — ἐλευθερία
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G1657 |
|---|---|
| Word: | ἐλευθερία |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Etymology: | from G1658 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 11 |
| Transliteration: | eleutheria |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | el-yoo-ther-ee'-ah |
| Meaning: | 1. freedom (legitimate or licentious, chiefly moral or ceremonial) |
| KJV Renderings: | liberty |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐλευθερία, ἐλευθέρας, ἡ (ἐλεύθερος), liberty, (from Pindar, Herodotus down); in the N. T.
a. liberty to do or to omit things having no relation to salvation, 1Co 10:29; from the yoke of the Mosaic law, Gal 2:4; Gal 5:1; Gal 5:13; 1Pe 2:16; from Jewish errors so blinding the mental vision that it does not discern the majesty of Christ, 2Co 3:17; freedom from the dominion of corrupt desires, so that we do by the free impulse of the soul what the will of God requires: ὁ νόμος τῆς ἐλευθερίας, i. e. the Christian religion, which furnishes that rule of right living by which the liberty just mentioned is attained, Jas 1:25; Jas 2:12; freedom from the restraints and miseries of earthly frailty: so in the expression ἡ ἐλευθερία τῆς δόξης (epexegetical genitive (Winer’s Grammar, 531 (494))), manifested in the glorious condition of the future life, Rom 8:21.
b. fancied liberty, i. e. license, the liberty to do as one pleases, 2Pe 2:19. J. C. Erler, Commentatio exeg. de libertatis christianae notione in N. T. libris obvia, 1830 (an essay I have never had the good fortune to see).
Englishman's Greek Concordance
ἐλευθερία (liberty)
Romans 8:21
- KJV: Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God
- GK: ότι και αυτή η κτίσις ελευθερωθήσεται από της δουλείας της φθοράς εις την ελευθερίαν της δόξης των τέκνων του θεού
1 Corinthians 10:29
- KJV: Conscience I say not thine own but of the other for why is my liberty judged of another conscience
- GK: συνείδησιν δε λέγω ουχί την εαυτού αλλά την του ετέρου ίνατι γαρ η ελευθερία μου κρίνεται υπό άλλης συνειδήσεως
2 Corinthians 3:17
- KJV: Now the Lord is that Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord there liberty
- GK: ο δε κύριος το πνεύμά εστιν ου δε το πνεύμα κυρίου εκεί ελευθερία
Galatians 2:4
- KJV: 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 bondage
- GK: διά δε τους παρεισάκτους ψευδαδελφούς οίτινες παρεισήλθον κατασκοπήσαι την ελευθερίαν ημών ην έχομεν εν χριστώ Ιησού ίνα ημάς καταδουλώσωνται
Galatians 5:1
- KJV: Stand fast therefore the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not entangled again the yoke of bondage
- GK: τη ελευθερία ούν η χριστός ημάς ηλευθέρωσεν στήκετε και μη πάλιν ζυγώ δουλείας ενέχεσθε
Galatians 5:13
- KJV: For brethren ye have been called unto liberty only not liberty for an occasion to the flesh but by love serve one another
- GK: υμείς γαρ επ΄ ελευθερία εκληθητε αδελφοί μόνον μη την ελευθερίαν εις αφορμήν τη σαρκί αλλά διά της αγάπης δουλεύετε αλλήλοις
James 1:25
- KJV: But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty and continueth he being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work this man shall be blessed in his deed
- GK: ο δε παρακύψας εις νόμον τέλειον τον της ελευθερίας και παραμείνας ούτος ουκ ακροατής επιλησμονής γενόμενος αλλά ποιητής έργου ούτος μακάριος εν τη ποιήσει αυτού έσται
James 2:12
- KJV: So speak ye and so do as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty
- GK: ούτω λαλείτε και ούτω ποιείτε ως διά νόμου ελευθερίας μέλλοντες κρίνεσθαι
1 Peter 2:16
- KJV: As free and not using liberty for a cloke of maliciousness but as the servants of God
- GK: ως ελεύθεροι και μη ως επικάλυμμα έχοντες της κακίας την ελευθερίαν αλλ΄ ως δούλοι θεού