ἐλευθερόω

ἐλευθερόω — eleutheróō

ἐλευθερόω, ἐλευθέρω: future ἐλευθερώσω; 1 aorist ἠλευθερωσα; passive, 1 aorist ἠλευθερωθην; 1 future ἐλευθερωθήσομαι; (ἐλεύθερος); (from Aeschylus down); to make free, set at liberty: from the dominion of sin, Joh 8:32; Joh 8:36; τινα ἀπό τίνος, one from another's control (Winers Grammar, 196f (185); Buttmann, 157f (138)): ἀπό τοῦ νόμου τάς ἁμαρτίας καί τοῦ θανάτου (see νόμος, 1), Rom 8:2; ἀπό τάς ἁμαρτίας, from the dominion of sin, Rom 6:18; Rom 6:22; ἀπό τάς δουλείας τῆς φθορᾶς εἰς τήν ἐλευθερίαν, to liberate from bondage (see δουλεία) and to bring (transfer) into etc. (see εἰς, C. 1), Rom 8:21; with a dative commodi, τῇ ἐλευθερία, that we might be possessors of liberty, Gal 5:1; cf. Buttmann, § 133, 12 (and Lightfoot at the passage).