Greek adjective · G1658
ἐλεύθερος
eleutherosel-yoo'-ther-os
free/freedom
23 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: eleútheros
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1658is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 27New Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1658
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)
The King James renders it: free (man, woman), at 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
eleutheros is rendered "free/freedom". It stands 23 times in the Greek text, across nine books.
- Six of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 17:26“From others,” Peter answered. “Then the sons are exempt,” Jesus declared.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
“From others,” Peter answered. “Then the sons are exempt,” Jesus declared.
Matthew 17:26ἐλεύθεροί
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's twenty-three uses are in 1 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- free23
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 23, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- ἐλεύθερος7
- ἐλεύθεροι5
- ἐλευθέρας4
- ἐλευθέρα3
- ἐλεύθεροί1
- ἐλεύθερος.¶1
- ἐλευθέρους1
- ἐλευθέρων1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular8A-NSM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural6A-NPM
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular4A-GSF
- adjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singular3A-NSF
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine plural1A-APM
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1A-GPM
Matthew
one use
“From others,” Peter answered. “Then the sons are exempt,” Jesus declared.
- ἐλεύθεροίeleutheroiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: free
John
two uses
“We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”
- ἐλεύθεροιeleutheroiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: Free
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
- ἐλεύθεροιeleutheroiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: free
Romans
two uses
For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.
- ἐλεύθεροιeleutheroiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: free
So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.
- ἐλευθέραeleutheraadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: free
1 Corinthians
six uses
Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let it concern you—but if you can gain your freedom, take the opportunity.
- ἐλεύθεροςeleutherosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: free
For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord’s freedman. Conversely, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ’s slave.
- ἐλεύθεροςeleutherosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: free
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.
- ἐλευθέραeleutheraadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: free
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you yourselves not my workmanship in the Lord?
- ἐλεύθεροςeleutherosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: free
Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
- Ἐλεύθεροςeleutherosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Free
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
- ἐλεύθεροιeleutheroiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: free
Galatians
six uses
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- ἐλεύθεροςeleutherosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: free
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
- ἐλευθέραςeleutherasadjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: free
His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.
- ἐλευθέραςeleutherasadjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: free
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
- ἐλευθέραeleutheraadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: free
But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
- ἐλευθέραςeleutherasadjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: free
Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
- ἐλευθέραςeleutherasadjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: free
Ephesians
one use
because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free.
- ἐλεύθερος.¶eleutherosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: free
Colossians
one use
Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
- ἐλεύθεροςeleutherosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: free
1 Peter
one use
Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
- ἐλεύθεροιeleutheroiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: free
Revelation
three uses
Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
- ἐλεύθεροςeleutherosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: free
And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,
- ἐλευθέρουςeleutherousadjective · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: free
so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”
- ἐλευθέρωνeleutheronadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: free
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.