Hebrew adjective · H2670
חׇפְשִׁי
chophshikhof-shee'
free
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chophshîy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2670is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2670
exempt (from bondage, tax or care)
The King James renders it: free, 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
chophshi is rendered "free". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Five of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 21:2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
Exodus 21:2לַֽחָפְשִׁ֖י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- free8
- a free5
- to the free3
- a set free1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חׇפְשׁוּת | chophshuth | freedom | Uses2 |
The words it stands beside
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- חָפְשִׁ֖י4
- חָפְשִׁ֔ים2
- חָפְשִׁ֑ים2
- לַֽחָפְשִׁ֥י2
- חָ֫פְשִׁ֥י1
- חָפְשִׁי֙1
- חָפְשִׁ֥י1
- חָפְשִׁ֑י1
- חָפְשִֽׁי׃1
- חָפְשִׁ֖ים1
- לַֽחָפְשִׁ֖י1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular9HAamsa
- adjective · masculine plural5HAampa
- preposition with the article + adjective · masculine singular3HRd/Aamsa
Exodus
four uses
If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
- לַֽחָפְשִׁ֖יlachafeshipreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to the free
But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’
- חָפְשִֽׁי׃chafeshiadjective · masculine singulartagged: a free
If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.
- לַֽחָפְשִׁ֥יlachafeshipreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to the free
And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
- לַֽחָפְשִׁ֥יlachafeshipreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to the free
Deuteronomy
three uses
If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.
- חָפְשִׁ֖יchafeshiadjective · masculine singulartagged: a free
And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.
- חָפְשִׁ֖יchafeshiadjective · masculine singulartagged: a free
Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.
- חָפְשִׁי֙chafeshiadjective · masculine singulartagged: a free
1 Samuel
one use
Now the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see this man who keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father’s house from taxation in Israel.”
- חָפְשִׁ֖יchafeshiadjective · masculine singulartagged: free
Job
two uses
Psalms
one use
I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.
- חָ֫פְשִׁ֥יchafeshiadjective · masculine singulartagged: a set free
Isaiah
one use
Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
- חָפְשִׁ֔יםchafeshimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: free
Jeremiah
five uses
that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.
- חָפְשִׁ֑יםchafeshimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: free
So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,
- חָפְשִׁ֔יםchafeshimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: free
but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
- חָפְשִׁ֑יםchafeshimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: free
Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.
- חָפְשִׁ֖יchafeshiadjective · masculine singulartagged: a free
But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.
- חָפְשִׁ֖יםchafeshimadjective · 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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.