ἐλεύθεροςeleútheros
GreekG165823 occurrences (KJV)
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)
KJV renders it: free (man, woman), at liberty
Where it appears
- Matt 17:26Peter said to him, “From strangers.” Jesus said to him, “Therefore the children are exempt.
- John 8:33They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”
- John 8:36If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
- Rom 6:20For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
- Rom 7:3So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
- 1 Cor 7:21Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
- 1 Cor 7:22For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.
- 1 Cor 7:39A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.
- 1 Cor 9:1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
- 1 Cor 9:19For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
- 1 Cor 12:13For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
- Gal 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Gal 4:22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.
- Gal 4:23However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.
- Gal 4:26But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
- Gal 4:30However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”
- Gal 4:31So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.
- Eph 6:8knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.
- Col 3:11where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
- 1 Pet 2:16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
- Rev 6:15The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.
- Rev 13:16He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;
- Rev 19:18that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and great.”
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.