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Strong's G1658 ἐλεύθερος (eleutheros)

Eleutheros means “at liberty” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1658 — gishpa (“Gispa”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1658
Language Greek
Linked Usages 50
Books 24

Strong's G1658 Quick Answer

Strong's G1658 ἐλεύθερος (eleutheros) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. eleutheros (el-yoo'-ther-os) adj. 1. unrestrained (to go at pleasure) 2. (as a citizen) not a slave (whether freeborn or set free (emancipated)) It has 50 linked Bible usages across 24 books. Visible English usage signals include free and whether. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
eleutheros (el-yoo'-ther-os) adj. 1. unrestrained (to go at pleasure) 2. (as a citizen) not a slave (whether freeborn or set free (emancipated))
Usage
50 linked usages
Books
24 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
free and whether

Meaning and Definition

eleutheros (el-yoo'-ther-os) adj. 1. unrestrained (to go at pleasure) 2. (as a citizen) not a slave (whether freeborn or set free (emancipated)) 3. (genitive case) exempt (from obligation or liability) [probably from the alternate of G2064] KJV: free (man, woman), at liberty Root(s): G2064

Original Word
ἐλεύθερος
Transliteration
eleutheros
Derivation
Root: ἔρχομαι R1: 2064
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1658. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

free/freedom

Usage: ἐλεύθερος, -α, -ον [in LXX chiefly for חׇפְשִׁי ;] free; __(a) in civil sense, not a slave: Jhn.8:33, 1Co.7:21-22 12:13, Gal.3:28, Eph.6:8, Col.3:11, Rev.6:15 13:16 19:18; fem., Gal.4:22-23, 30; __(b) as regards restraint and obligation in general: Mat.17:26, 1Co.9:1; before ἐκ, 1Co.9:19; ἀπό, Rom.7:3; with inf., 1Co.7:39; from the law, Gal.4:26, 1Pe.2:16; from sin, Jhn.8:32, 36; τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ, as regards righteousness, Rom.6:20 (Cremer, 249).† (AS)

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How Strong's G1658 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render eleutheros, 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.

free Matthew 17:26 17× whether 1 Corinthians 12:13

How Strong's G1658 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is New Testament with 23 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1658 (ἐλεύθερος) appears 28 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1658 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1658 in the New Testament

23 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 17:26 KJV

Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.

John 8:33 KJV

They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

John 8:36 KJV

If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Strong's G1658 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

18 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 21:2 Septuagint / Brenton

If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee, and in the seventh year he shall go forth free for nothing.

Exodus 21:5 Septuagint / Brenton

And if the servant should answer and say, I love my master and wife and children, I will not go away free;

Exodus 21:26 Septuagint / Brenton

And if one smite the eye of his manservant, or the eye of his maidservant, and put it out, he shall let them go free for their eye’s sake.

Strong's G1658 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

9 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 3:19 Septuagint / Brenton

it maketh the mind of the king and of the fatherless child to be all one; of the bondman and of the freeman, of the poor man and of the rich:

Judith 16:23 Septuagint / Brenton

But she increased more and more in honor, and waxed old in her husband’s house, being a hundred and five years old, and made her maid free; so she died in Bethulia: and they buried her in the cave of her husband Manasseh.

1 Maccabees 2:11 Septuagint / Brenton

All her ornaments are taken away; of a free woman she has become a bondslave.

Usage Excerpts

First 50 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1658.

Exodus 21:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee, and in the seventh year he shall go forth free for nothing.
Exodus 21:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if the servant should answer and say, I love my master and wife and children, I will not go away free;
Exodus 21:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if one smite the eye of his manservant, or the eye of his maidservant, and put it out, he shall let them go free for their eye’s sake.
Exodus 21:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if he should smite out the tooth of his manservant, or the tooth of his maidservant, he shall send them away free for their tooth’s sake.
Deuteronomy 15:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thy brother or sister, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, be sold to thee, he shall serve thee six years, and in the seventh year thou shalt send him out free from thee.
Deuteronomy 15:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when thou shalt send him out free from thee, thou shalt not send him out empty.
Deuteronomy 15:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
It shall not seem hard to thee when they are sent out free from thee, because thy servant has served thee six years according to the annual hire of a hireling; so the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all things whatsoever thou mayest do.
Deuteronomy 21:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall be if thou do not delight in her, thou shalt send her out free; and she shall not by any means be sold for money, thou shalt not treat her contemptuously, because thou hast humbled her.
3 Kingdoms 20:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she wrote a letter in the name of Ahab, and sealed it with his seal, and sent the letter to the elders, and to the freemen who dwelt with Naboth.
3 Kingdoms 20:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the men of his city, the elders, and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel sent to them, and as it had been written in the letters which she sent to them.
Nehemiah 13:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
Job 39:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? And who loosed his bands?
Psalms 87:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help;
Ecclesiastes 10:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Blessed art thou, O land, whose king is a son of nobles, And whose princes shall eat seasonably, for strength, And shall not be ashamed.
Jeremiah 36:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
(after the departure of Jechoniah the king and the queen, and the eunuchs, and every freeman, and bondman, and artificer, out of Jerusalem);
Jeremiah 41:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that every one should set at liberty his servant, and every one his handmaid, the Hebrew man and Hebrew woman, that no man of Judah should be a bondman.
Jeremiah 41:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When six years are accomplished, thou shalt set free thy brother the Hebrew, who shall be sold to thee: for he shall serve thee six years, and then thou shalt let him go free: but they hearkened not to me, and inclined not their ear.
Jeremiah 41:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But ye turned and profaned my name, to bring back every one his servant, and every one his handmaid, whom ye had sent forth free and at their own disposal, to be to you menservants and maidservants.
Matthew 17:26 New Testament, KJV
Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.
John 8:33 New Testament, KJV
They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
John 8:36 New Testament, KJV
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Romans 6:20 New Testament, KJV
For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
Romans 7:3 New Testament, KJV
So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
1 Corinthians 7:21 New Testament, KJV
Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
1 Corinthians 7:22 New Testament, KJV
For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
1 Corinthians 7:39 New Testament, KJV
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 9:1 New Testament, KJV
Am I am not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:19 New Testament, KJV
For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
1 Corinthians 12:13 New Testament, KJV
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Galatians 3:28 New Testament, KJV
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 4:22 New Testament, KJV
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
Galatians 4:23 New Testament, KJV
But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
Galatians 4:26 New Testament, KJV
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Galatians 4:30 New Testament, KJV
Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
Galatians 4:31 New Testament, KJV
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Ephesians 6:8 New Testament, KJV
Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
Colossians 3:11 New Testament, KJV
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
1 Peter 2:16 New Testament, KJV
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Revelation 6:15 New Testament, KJV
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
Revelation 13:16 New Testament, KJV
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Revelation 19:18 New Testament, KJV
That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
1 Esdras 3:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
it maketh the mind of the king and of the fatherless child to be all one; of the bondman and of the freeman, of the poor man and of the rich:
Judith 16:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But she increased more and more in honor, and waxed old in her husband’s house, being a hundred and five years old, and made her maid free; so she died in Bethulia: and they buried her in the cave of her husband Manasseh.
1 Maccabees 2:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
All her ornaments are taken away; of a free woman she has become a bondslave.
1 Maccabees 10:33 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Moreover I freely set at liberty every one of the Jews, that were carried captives out of the land of Judah into any part of my kingdom, and I will that all my officers remit the tributes even of their cattle.
1 Maccabees 15:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And as concerning Jerusalem and the sanctuary, let them be free; and all the armor that thou hast made, and fortresses that thou hast built, and keepest in thy hands, let them remain unto thee.
2 Maccabees 9:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
That the holy city (to the which he was going in haste, to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a common burying place) he would set at liberty:
3 Maccabees 7:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
These they registered as sacred upon a pillar, when they had dedicated the place of their festivity to be one of prayer. They departed unharmed, free, abundant in joy, preserved by the king’s command, by land, by sea, and by river, each to his own home.
4 Maccabees 14:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
O reasonings more royal than a king, and freer than freemen!
Wisdom of Sirach 10:25 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Unto the servant that is wise shall they that are free do service: And he that hath knowledge will not grudge when he is reformed.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1658, grouped by book.

Exodus 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
John 2 usages, New Testament
Romans 2 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 6 usages, New Testament
Galatians 6 usages, New Testament
Ephesians 1 usage, New Testament
Colossians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Peter 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 3 usages, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G1658 FAQ

What does eleutheros (ἐλεύθερος) mean?

Eleutheros (Strong's G1658) is a Greek word most simply glossed "at liberty". eleutheros (el-yoo'-ther-os) adj. 1. unrestrained (to go at pleasure) 2. (as a citizen) not a slave (whether freeborn or set free (emancipated))

How many times is eleutheros (ἐλεύθερος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 50 linked usages for Strong's G1658 across 24 books.

Where can I study eleutheros (ἐλεύθερος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1658 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate eleutheros (ἐλεύθερος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as free and whether. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G1658 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 18 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 9 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1658, with linked reader references where each row is available.