Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
free
Usage: 1) free 1a) free (from slavery) 1b) free (from taxes or obligations)
Chophshi means “free” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2670 — katapontizo (“drown”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2670 חָפשִׁי (chophshiy) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chophshiy (khof-shee') adj. 1. exempt (from bondage, tax or care) [from H2666] It has 17 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include free and liberty. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
chophshiy (khof-shee') adj. 1. exempt (from bondage, tax or care) [from H2666] KJV: free, liberty. Root(s): H2666
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free
Usage: 1) free 1a) free (from slavery) 1b) free (from taxes or obligations)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chophshiy, 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 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.
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17 indexed usages in Old Testament.
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
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.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2670.
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
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.
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.
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.
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
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.
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.
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2670, grouped by book.
Chophshi (Strong's H2670) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "free". chophshiy (khof-shee') adj. 1. exempt (from bondage, tax or care) [from H2666]
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's H2670 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2670 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as free and liberty. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.