521 occurrences in 13 translations

'Free' in the Bible

And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the garden,

Verse ConceptsAdam, PriviledgesGod's ProvisionFood DefinedFood PermittedAdam and eveGardensMorality

If the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are free from this oath to me, but don’t let my son go back there.”

Verse ConceptsReturning to the oldPeople Unwilling

Then you will be free from my oath if you go to my family and they do not give her to you—you will be free from my oath.’

Verse ConceptsNot Giving

But by your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother. But it shall be [that] when free yourself you shall tear off his yoke from your neck.

Verse ConceptsNecksRestlessnessYokesSubjectionServing IndividualsPeople Releasing Othersdominion

Later, Laban asked Jacob, "Should you serve me for free, just because you're my nephew? Let's talk about what your wages should be."

Verse ConceptsBeing FairNegotiationServants, Working Conditions OfWagesFree Of Charge

Reuben told them. "And no blood shedding, either. Instead, let's toss him into this cistern that's way out here in the wilderness. But don't lay a hand on him." (Reuben intended to free Joseph and return him to his father.)

Verse ConceptsSheddingReinstating PeopleIndividuals Saving Others

"Feel free to put my own two sons to death," Reuben responded to his father, "if I don't bring him back to you. Trust me I'll bring him back to you."

Verse ConceptsTwo Sons

He replied, "You have suggested your own punishment! The one who has it will become my slave, but the rest of you will go free."

Verse ConceptsMaking SlavesExempt

And the king of Egypt saith unto them, 'Why, Moses and Aaron, do ye free the people from its works? go to your burdens.'

Verse ConceptsDoing One's Workdistractions

“Therefore tell the Israelites: I am Yahweh, and I will deliver you from the forced labor of the Egyptians and free you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and great acts of judgment.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfGod, As SaviorArmsGod, The LordRedemption, In Everyday LifeStrength, DivineArm Of GodCaptivesStrength Of GodRemoving BurdensI Am The LordGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptRedemptionGod's Interventionliberation

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

Verse ConceptsEmployeesPeople Freeing SlavesWivesslaveryservanthood

“If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsdaughtersPeople Freeing Slavessales

If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In Everyday LifeLaws Restricting ForeignersNot Pleasing PeopleUnfaithful

And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

Verse ConceptsThree Other ThingsPeople Freeing SlavesFree Of Charge

And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

Verse ConceptsEyes HarmedFor The Sake Of ThingsPeople Freeing Slaves

And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

Verse ConceptsDentistryBreaking TeethFor The Sake Of ThingsPeople Freeing Slaves

"If an ox gores a man or woman so that they die, the ox is certainly to be stoned and its flesh may not be eaten, but the owner of the ox is free from liability.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfStriking To DeathAnimals KillingForbidden FoodInstructions About StoningRules About Killing AnimalsUnpunished

Aaron and his sons are to put these on whenever they go into the Tent of meeting or come near the altar, when they are doing the work of the holy place, so that they may be free from any sin causing death: this is to be an order for him and his seed after him for ever.

Verse ConceptsIncurring GuiltOrdinancesTentsDeath Due To God's Presence

Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.

Verse ConceptsIniquity, God's Attitude TowardPunishment, Nature OfUnforgivenessParents SinSins Of The FathersA Forgiving God

And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.

Verse ConceptsCollectionsMorningTithesEvery MorningPeople WillingFree Will

And the priest will see him: and if the place is turned white, then the priest will say that he is free from the disease.

Verse ConceptsWhite Spots

He shall then sprinkle seven times the one who is to be cleansed from the leprosy and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the live bird go free over the open field.

Verse ConceptsSprinklingSprinkling BloodSeven TimesDiseasecleansing

And the rest of the oil in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be made clean; and so the priest will make him free from sin before the Lord.

Verse ConceptsAnointed By PeoplePriests Atoning

However, he shall let the live bird go free outside the city into the open field. So he shall make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.”

Verse ConceptsOutside The CityPriests Atoning

In this way may the children of Israel be made free from all sorts of unclean conditions, so that death may not overtake them when they are unclean and when they make unclean my holy place which is among them.

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessHoliness,  Worldly SeparationParticipation, In SinSeparationDeath Due To God's PresencePolluting Holy Places

And Aaron is to give the ox of the sin-offering for himself, to make himself and his house free from sin.

Verse ConceptsHousesActing For OneselfSacrificing CattlePriests Atoning

And let him make the holy place free from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel and from their wrongdoing in all their sins; and let him do the same for the Tent of meeting, which has its place among an unclean people.

Verse ConceptsAtonementPriests Atoning

And no man may be in the Tent of meeting from the time when Aaron goes in to take away sin in the holy place till he comes out, having made himself and his house and all the people of Israel free from sin.

Verse ConceptsDay Of AtonementEmpty PlacesActing For OneselfPriests Atoning

And he is to go out to the altar which is before the Lord and make it free from sin; and he is to take some of the blood of the ox and the blood of the goat and put it on the horns of the altar and round it;

Verse ConceptsHornsPriests Atoning

And when he has done whatever is necessary to make the holy place and the Tent of meeting and the altar free from sin, let him put the living goat before the Lord;

Verse ConceptsPriests AtoningReconciliation

And the ox of the sin-offering and the goat of the sin-offering, whose blood was taken in to make the holy place free from sin, are to be taken away outside the tent-circle and their skins and their flesh and their waste are to be burned with fire.

Verse ConceptsOffalOutside The CampAnimal SkinsDefecationAtoning By Sacrifices

For on this day your sin will be taken away and you will be clean: you will be made free from all your sins before the Lord.

Verse ConceptsAtonement, Types OfSin, Deliverance From GodBeing Cleansed From SinForgiving Yourselfcleansing

And he will make the holy place and the Tent of meeting and the altar free from sin; he will take away sin from the priests and from all the people.

Verse ConceptsPriests Atoning

And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

Verse ConceptsBeatingsEngagementServants Of PeopleLaws Of Sexual UnionAdulteryDeath Penalty For Sexual Sin

And whoever makes a peace-offering to the Lord, in payment of an oath or as a free offering, from the herd or the flock, if it is to be pleasing to the Lord, let it be free from any mark or damage.

Verse ConceptsFellowship OfferingPerfection, DivineVowsUnblemishmentPerfect SacrificesPeace offerings

An ox or a lamb which has more or less than its natural parts, may be given as a free offering; but it will not be taken in payment of an oath.

Verse ConceptsMaking VowsBlemished CreaturesRegulating SacrificesFree Will

In addition to the Sabbaths of the Lord, and in addition to the things you give and the oaths you make and the free offerings to the Lord

Verse ConceptsSabbath, In OtSabbaths Instituted

And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In Otethics, personalClansCivil LibertyHolidayProclaimingReversion Of ThingsFreedom

But if he is unable to redeem it, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of the purchaser until the Year of Jubilee; but at the Jubilee it shall revert, and he may return to his property.

Verse ConceptsYearsReversion Of Things

But if it is not redeemed for him within a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently and irrevocably to the purchaser throughout his generations. It does not revert back in the Year of Jubilee.

Verse ConceptsEternal PossessionReversion Of Things

The houses of the villages that have no surrounding walls, however, shall be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and revert in the Year of Jubilee.

Verse ConceptsVillagesThe CountrysideReversion Of Things

Therefore, what is [purchased] from the Levites may be redeemed [by a Levite], and the house that was sold in the city they possess reverts in the Year of Jubilee, for the houses in the Levite cities are their [ancestral] property among the Israelites.

Verse ConceptsTownReal EstateReversion Of Things

but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

Verse ConceptsPermission To Return Home

After he has given himself he has the right to be made free, for a price, by one of his brothers,

Verse ConceptsRedemptionredeemed

Or his father's brother, or the son of his father's brother, or any near relation; or if he gets money, he may make himself free.

Verse ConceptsGetting Rich

And if there is only a short time, he will take account of it with his master, and in relation to the number of years he will give back the price of making him free.

Verse ConceptsA Short TimeAccording To Timeaccounting

If he isn't redeemed by these, then he is to be set free in the year of jubilee he and his children with him

Verse ConceptsYearsPeople Freeing Slaves

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves; and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright [with heads held high as free men].

Verse ConceptsGod, The LordCordsYokesBreaking SticksGod Lifting PeopleThe Lord Is GodTenons And BarsGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptslaveryBreaking Chains

But the field, when it becomes free at the year of Jubilee, will be holy to the Lord, as a field given under oath: it will be the property of the priest.

Verse ConceptsPriests PossessingHoly Land

And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:

Verse ConceptsOaths, HumanBitter WaterAbsence Of SexBad WaterUnpunishedPeople Bound By Oaths

And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

Verse ConceptsConceptionUnpunished

The husband will be free of guilt, but that woman will bear the consequences of her guilt.”

Verse ConceptsFound GuiltyNot Guiltyconsequences

We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

Verse ConceptsCucumbersFruitFishesVegetablesLooking BackwardPeople RememberingFree Of ChargeComplainingFish

So the priest will make the people free from sin, and they will have forgiveness; for it was an error, and they have given their offering made by fire to the Lord, and their sin-offering before the Lord, on account of their error:

Verse ConceptsPriests AtoningMaking Mistakes

And Moses said to Aaron, Take your vessel and put in it fire from the altar, and sweet spices, and take it quickly into the meeting of the people, and make them free from sin: for wrath has gone out from the Lord, and the disease is starting.

Verse ConceptsMoses, Significance OfAaron, As High PriestCensers

These are the offerings which you are to give to the Lord at your regular feasts, in addition to the offerings for an oath, and the free offerings you give, for your burned offerings and your drink offerings and your peace-offerings.

Verse ConceptsFreewill OfferingFellowship OfferingRegulating SacrificesFree Will

And we have here an offering for the Lord from what every man took in the war, ornaments of gold, leg-chains and arm-rings, finger-rings, ear-rings, and neck-ornaments, to make our souls free from sin before the Lord.

Verse ConceptsBraceletsEarringsGoldOrnamentsRingsSealsNecklace

and the land is subdued before the Lord—afterward you may return and be free from obligation to the Lord and to Israel. And this land will belong to you as a possession before the Lord.

So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with NoahAtonement, in OTSheddingHuman Blood ShedPolluting The LandLifebloodAtoning By SacrificesJudgement On MurderersThe Environmentcleansing

But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerGod, Power OfHand Of GodOaths, DivineRedemption, In OtGod's HandGod Swearing BlessingsGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod's Love For Israel

And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; and of forcing you out of the way in which the Lord your God has given you orders to go. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerBad InfluenceGod's WaysPurity, Moral And SpiritualRebellion, Against GodSatan, Agents OfSatan, As DeceiverMisleading DreamsFalse Prophets DenouncedGroups Of SlavesWalking In God's WayDeath Penalty For HeresyGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptDreams And False Prophets

And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

Verse ConceptsHolidaySabbatical YearSlavery, In OtYearsSix YearsPeople Freeing SlavesThe Law On Slavery

And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

Verse ConceptsEmpty Handed

And keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: so I give you this order today.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerCommands, in OTGroups Of Slavesslavery

It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

Verse ConceptsValuesSix YearsHardship

Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerAcceptance, From GodAcceptance, divineExpiationGod Will Forgive

But it shall be that if you have no delight and take no pleasure in her, then you shall let her go wherever she wishes. You certainly shall not sell her for money; you shall not deal with her as a slave or mistreat her, because you have humbled her [by forced marriage].

Verse Conceptsdivorce, amongst believersAvoid Divorce

You may take the young for yourself, but be sure to let the mother go free, so that you may prosper and live long.

Verse ConceptsAnimal LifeHow To Live Long

But keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: for this is why I give you orders to do this.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerGroups Of Slaves

The Lord will indeed vindicate His peopleand have compassion on His servantswhen He sees that their strength is goneand no one is left—slave or free.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeGod, Repentance OfPeople Of God, In OtGod VindicatesGod Will Show Mercyvindication

The men said to her, “We will be free from this oath you made us swear,

It shall come about that anyone who goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we shall be free; but anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head if a hand is laid on him.

Verse ConceptsHeadsRoadsStreetsGoing OutsideResponsibility

And if you report our mission, we are free from the oath you made us swear.”

Joshua conquered the whole land, just as the Lord had promised Moses, and he assigned Israel their tribal portions. Then the land was free of war.

Verse ConceptsInvasionsRest, PhysicalWarfare, Examples OfTypes Of ChristConquestTime Of Peace

(Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba. Arba was a famous Anakite.) Then the land was free of war.

Verse ConceptsRest, PhysicalGiantsTime Of Peace

So he showed them the entrance to the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go free.

(For my father made war for you, and put his life in danger, and made you free from the hands of Midian;

Verse ConceptsDeliverersRisking

Then she cried, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When he awoke from his sleep, he said, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the Lord had left him.

Verse ConceptsSelf ConfidenceWeakness, PhysicalGod Abandoning Individualsresilienceflexibilitypremonitions

And the towns which the Philistines had taken were given back to Israel, from Ekron to Gath, and all the country round them Israel made free from the power of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.

Verse ConceptsAmoritesCities In IsraelRestoring ThingsTime Of Peace

And he said to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I took Israel out of Egypt, and made you free from the hands of the Egyptians and from all the kingdoms which kept you down:

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toKingdomsGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptSpecial Revelation

Therefore, Saul said to the Lord, the God of Israel, “Give a perfect lot [identifying the transgressor].” Then Saul and Jonathan were selected [by lot], but the other men went free.

Verse ConceptsCasting LotsPrayer, As Asking GodUrim And Thummim

And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.

Verse ConceptsExemptGetting RichGiving In Marriage

And so, as your life was dear to me today, may my life be dear to the Lord, and may he make me free from all my troubles.

Verse ConceptsDistressPersonal Good

Your hands were free, your feet were not chained: like the downfall of a man before evil men, so was your fall. And the weeping of the people over him went on again.

Verse ConceptsWeepingTying UpBronze Shackles

And through all the tribes of Israel the people were having arguments, saying, The king made us safe from the hands of those who were against us and made us free from the hands of the Philistines; and now he has gone in flight from the land, because of Absalom.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Saving Others

And David made a song to the Lord in these words, on the day when the Lord made him free from the hands of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul:

Verse ConceptsDavid, Abilities OfThose Singing PraiseGod Saving From EnemiesBlindnessdeliverancesaul

He made me free from my strong hater, from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorGod Saving From EnemiesOvercoming Enemies

You have made me free from the fightings of my people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.

Verse ConceptsServing PeopleNot Knowing PeopleForeigners Included Among The PeopleHead As ChiefServingpreservation

He makes me free from my haters: I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

Verse ConceptsRescue From ViolenceGod Lifting PeopleGod Saving From EnemiesProtection From Enemies

But do not let him be free from punishment, for you are a wise man; and it will be clear to you what you have to do with him; see that his white head goes down to the underworld in blood.

Verse ConceptsSheolGrey

Because of all this, I am about to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam:I will eliminate all of Jeroboam’s males,both slave and free, in Israel;I will sweep away the house of Jeroboamas one sweeps away dung until it is all gone!

Verse Conceptsdung and manureDefecationUrinatingDeath Of All MalesGod Will Kill His People

Then King Asa proclaimed among all of Israel that there was no one free from obligation, so they carried the stones of Ramah and its wood with which Baasha had built, and King Asa rebuilt Geba in Benjamin with them, and the Mizpah.

Verse ConceptsExemptCarrying Other LoadsWood And Stone

He told the king, "This is what the LORD says: "Because you let the man whom I had dedicated to destruction go free, therefore your life is to be forfeited for his life, and your people for his people.'"

Verse ConceptsProphets, Role OfSubstitutionPredestination, Of PersonsAnnihilationEquality Of PunishmentPeople Set Free By People

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἐλεύθερος 
Eleutheros 
Usage: 21

בּהק 
Bohaq 
Usage: 1

זעף 
Za`aph 
Usage: 5

חדשׁ 
Chadash 
Usage: 53

חנּם 
Chinnam 
Usage: 32

חפשׁה 
Chuphshah 
Usage: 1

חפשׁי 
Chophshiy 
Usage: 17

חרה 
Charah 
Usage: 91

לשׁד 
L@shad 
Usage: 2

מאר 
Ma'ar 
Usage: 4

נדב 
N@dab (Aramaic) 
Usage: 4

נדיב 
Nadiyb 
Usage: 28

נקה 
Naqah 
Usage: 44

נקיא נקי 
Naqiy 
Usage: 43

פּחתת 
P@chetheth 
Usage: 1

פּטר 
Patar 
Usage: 5

קצף 
Qatsaph 
Usage: 34

רטפשׁ 
Ruwtaphash 
Usage: 1

רעם 
Ra`am 
Usage: 13

רענן 
Ra`anan 
Usage: 20

ἀπελεύθερος 
Apeleutheros 
Usage: 1

γλυκύς 
Glukus 
Usage: 4

δικαιόω 
Dikaioo 
Usage: 35

δωρεάν 
Dorean 
Usage: 5

ἐλευθερόω 
Eleutheroo 
Usage: 5

παῤῥησιάζομαι 
Parrhesiazomai 
Usage: 9

περισσοτέρως 
Perissoteros 
Usage: 13

πολιτεία 
Politeia 
Usage: 2

χαρίζομαι 
Charizomai 
Usage: 21

χάρισμα 
Charisma 
Usage: 17

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