Eleutheria means “liberty” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1657 — goshen in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1657 ἐλευθερία (eleutheria) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. eleutheria (el-yoo-ther-ee'-ah) n. 1. freedom (legitimate or licentious, chiefly moral or ceremonial) [from G1658] It has 18 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include liberty. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
eleutheria (el-yoo-ther-ee'-ah) n. 1. freedom (legitimate or licentious, chiefly moral or ceremonial) [from G1658] KJV: liberty Root(s): G1658
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1657. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
freedom
Usage: 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 English word each shown verse actually uses to render eleutheria, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1657 (ἐλευθερία) appears 8 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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10 indexed usages in New Testament.
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And to the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pains and thy groanings; in pain thou shalt bring forth children, and thy submission shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
And if anyone lie carnally with a woman, and she should be a home servant kept for a man, and she has not been ransomed, and her freedom has not been given to her, they shall be visited with punishment; but they shall not die, because she was not set at liberty.
6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Moreover he wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry, concerning their freedom, that no officer, no ruler, no lieutenant, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into their doors;
and that all they that went from Babylon to build the city should have free liberty, as well they as their posterity, and all the priests that went away.
For he and his brethren and the house of his father have established Israel, and chased away in fight their enemies from them, and confirmed their liberty.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1657.
And to the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pains and thy groanings; in pain thou shalt bring forth children, and thy submission shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
And if anyone lie carnally with a woman, and she should be a home servant kept for a man, and she has not been ransomed, and her freedom has not been given to her, they shall be visited with punishment; but they shall not die, because she was not set at liberty.
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
Moreover he wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry, concerning their freedom, that no officer, no ruler, no lieutenant, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into their doors;
and that all they that went from Babylon to build the city should have free liberty, as well they as their posterity, and all the priests that went away.
For he and his brethren and the house of his father have established Israel, and chased away in fight their enemies from them, and confirmed their liberty.
Whoever shall inform against the Jews, besides receiving the property of the person charged, shall be presented with two thousand drachmas from the royal treasury, shall be made free, and shall be crowned.
Let thy soul love a good servant, And defraud him not of liberty.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1657, grouped by book.
Eleutheria (Strong's G1657) is a Greek word most simply glossed "liberty". eleutheria (el-yoo-ther-ee'-ah) n. 1. freedom (legitimate or licentious, chiefly moral or ceremonial) [from G1658]
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's G1657 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1657 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as liberty. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1657, with linked reader references where each row is available.