Strong's #1658: eleutheros (pronounced el-yoo'-ther-os)
probably from the alternate of 2064; 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):--free (man, woman), at liberty.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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eleutheros
1) freeborn
1a) in a civil sense, one who is not a slave
1b) of one who ceases to be a slave, freed, manumitted
2) free, exempt, unrestrained, not bound by an obligation
3) in an ethical sense: free from the yoke of the Mosaic Law
Part of Speech: adjective
Relation: probably from the alternate of G2064
Citing in TDNT: 2:487, 224
Usage:
This word is used 23 times:
Matthew 17:26: "are the children free."
John 8:33: "how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?"
John 8:36: "therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."
Romans 6:20: "the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness."
Romans 7:3: "her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is"
1 Corinthians 7:21: "if thou mayest be made free, use it rather."
1 Corinthians 7:22: "likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant."
1 Corinthians 7:39: "if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom"
1 Corinthians 9:1: "an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ"
1 Corinthians 9:19: "For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all,"
1 Corinthians 12:13: "whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into"
Galatians 3:28: "neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor"
Galatians 4:22: "the other by a freewoman."
Galatians 4:23: "but he of the freewoman was by promise."
Galatians 4:26: "Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us"
Galatians 4:30: "the son of the freewoman."
Galatians 4:31: "of the bondwoman, but of the free."
Ephesians 6:8: "the Lord, whether he be bond or free."
Colossians 3:11: "Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and"
1 Peter 2:16: "As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak"
Revelation 6:15: "bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the"
Revelation 13:16: "rich and poor, free and bond, to"
Revelation 19:18: "and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small"
