Greek noun (feminine) · G1657
ἐλευθερία
eleutheriael-yoo-ther-ee'-ah
freedom
11 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: eleuthería
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1657is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1657
freedom (legitimate or licentious, chiefly moral or ceremonial)
The King James renders it: liberty.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
eleutheria is rendered "freedom". It stands 11 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- Four of the uses stand in Galatians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 8:21that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
Romans 8:21ἐλευθερίαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's eleven uses are in Galatians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- freedom8
- of freedom2
- In freedom1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐλευθερίαν5
- ἐλευθερία2
- ἐλευθερίᾳ2
- ἐλευθερίας2
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular5N-ASF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular2N-DSF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular2N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular2N-NSF
Romans
one use
that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
- ἐλευθερίανeleutheriannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: freedom
1 Corinthians
one use
the other one’s conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?
- ἐλευθερίαeleutherianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: freedom
2 Corinthians
one use
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
- ἐλευθερίαeleutherianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: freedom
Galatians
four uses
This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.
- ἐλευθερίανeleutheriannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: freedom
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
- ἐλευθερίᾳeleutherianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: In freedom
For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
- ἐλευθερίᾳeleutherianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: freedom
- ἐλευθερίανeleutheriannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: freedom
James
two uses
But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.
- ἐλευθερίαςeleutheriasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of freedom
Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom.
- ἐλευθερίαςeleutheriasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of freedom
1 Peter
one use
Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
- ἐλευθερίανeleutheriannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: freedom
2 Peter
one use
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
- ἐλευθερίανeleutheriannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: freedom
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.