G1657

ἐλευθερία

eleutheriaG:N-F

freedom

ἐλευθερία, -ας, ἡ [in LXX: Lev.19:20 (חֻפְשָׁה), 1Es.4:49 Est.4:53, Sir.7:21, Sir.33:25, 1Ma.14:27, 3Ma.3:28 * ;] liberty: with reference to the religious life, 1Co.10:29, 2Co.3:17, Gal.2:4 5:1, 1Pe.2:16, 2Pe.2:19; ὁ νόμος τῆς ἐ., Jas.1:25 2:12; ἡ ἐ. τῆς δόξης, Rom.8:21; ἐπ᾽ ἐ., Gal.5:13 (on which formula, cf. Deiss., LAE, 327 ff.; Cremer, 251).† (AS)

The KJV translates G1657 in the following manner:

liberty (22x)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

ἐλευθερία — eleuthería

ἐλευθερία, ἐλευθέρας, ἡ (ἐλεύθερος), liberty, (from Pindar, Herodotus down); in the N. T.

a. liberty to do or to omit things having no relation to salvation, 1Co 10:29; from the yoke of the Mosaic law, Gal 2:4; Gal 5:1; Gal 5:13; 1Pe 2:16; from Jewish errors so blinding the mental vision that it does not discern the majesty of Christ, 2Co 3:17; freedom from the dominion of corrupt desires, so that we do by the free impulse of the soul what the will of God requires: ὁ νόμος τῆς ἐλευθερίας, i. e. the Christian religion, which furnishes that rule of right living by which the liberty just mentioned is attained, Jas 1:25; Jas 2:12; freedom from the restraints and miseries of earthly frailty: so in the expression ἡ ἐλευθερία τῆς δόξης (epexegetical genitive (Winer's Grammar, 531 (494))), manifested in the glorious condition of the future life, Rom 8:21.

b. fancied liberty, i. e. license, the liberty to do as one pleases, 2Pe 2:19. J. C. Erler, Commentatio exeg. de libertatis christianae notione in N. T. libris obvia, 1830 (an essay I have never had the good fortune to see).

10 occurrences

Romans (1), I Corinthians (1), II Corinthians (1), Galatians (3), James (2), I Peter (1), II Peter (1)