ἐλεύθερος eleútheros

Meaning

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)

In the King James Version: free (man, woman), at liberty

Derivation: probably from the alternate of G2064 (ἔρχομαι);

Where it is used

• Matthew 17:26 “From others,” Peter answered. “Then the sons are exempt,” Jesus said to him.
• John 8:33 “We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”
• John 8:36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
• Romans 6:20 For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.
• Romans 7:3 So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
• 1 Corinthians 7:21 Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let it concern you—but if you can gain your freedom, take the opportunity.
• 1 Corinthians 7:22 For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord’s freedman. Conversely, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ’s slave.
• 1 Corinthians 7:39 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.
• 1 Corinthians 9:1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you yourselves not my workmanship in the Lord?
• 1 Corinthians 9:19 Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
• 1 Corinthians 12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
• Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
• Galatians 4:22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
• Galatians 4:23 His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.
• Galatians 4:26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
• Galatians 4:30 But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
• Galatians 4:31 Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
• Ephesians 6:8 because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free.
• Colossians 3:11 Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
• 1 Peter 2:16 Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
• Revelation 6:15 Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
• Revelation 13:16 And the second beast required all people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,
• Revelation 19:18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”