Eleútheros — G1658

Definition

adjective

unrestrained (to go at pleasure), i.e. (as a citizen) not a slave (whether freeborn or manumitted), or (genitive case) exempt (from obligation or liability)

1. freeborn
2. free, exempt, unrestrained, not bound by an obligation
3. in an ethical sense

Usually translated as

free, at liberty

Origin

probably from the alternate of G2064

• érchomai (G2064)

Occurrences

Eleútheros occurs 23 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (1), John (2), Romans (2), 1 Corinthians (6), Galatians (6), Ephesians (1), Colossians (1), 1 Peter (1), Revelation (3)

• Matthew 17:26 — Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free (ἐλεύθεροι).
• 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 (ἐλεύθεροι)?
• John 8:36 — If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free (ἐλεύθεροι) indeed.
• Romans 6:20 — For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free (ἐλεύθεροι) from righteousness.
• Romans 7:3 — So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free (ἐλευθέρα) from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
• 1 Corinthians 7:21 — Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free (ἐλεύθερος), use it rather.
• 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 (ἐλεύθερος), is Christ’s servant.
• 1 Corinthians 7:39 — The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty (ἐλευθέρα) to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
• 1 Corinthians 9:1 — Am I not an apostle? am I not free (ἐλεύθερος)? 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 (ἐλεύθερος) 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 (ἐλεύθεροι); and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
• Galatians 3:28 — There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free (ἐλεύθερος), there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
• Galatians 4:22 — For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman (ἐλευθέρας).
• Galatians 4:23 — But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman (ἐλευθέρας) was by promise.
• Galatians 4:26 — But Jerusalem which is above is free (ἐλευθέρα), which is the mother of us all.
• Galatians 4:30 — Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman (ἐλευθέρας).
• Galatians 4:31 — So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free (ἐλευθέρας).
• Ephesians 6:8 — Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free (ἐλεύθερος).
• Colossians 3:11 — Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free (ἐλεύθερος): but Christ is all, and in all.
• 1 Peter 2:16 — As free (ἐλεύθεροι), 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 (ἐλεύθερος), hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
• Revelation 13:16 — And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free (ἐλευθέρους) 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 flesh of all men, both free (ἐλευθέρων) and bond, both small and great.