eleutheria · freedom

What it means

eleutheria (ἐλευθερία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “freedom”.

Not being subject as a slave.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Being free, not bound like a slave.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×4
• James×2
• 1 Peter×1
• 2 Peter×1

• Romans 8:21

  that the creation itself also will be set free from the slavery of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

• 1 Corinthians 10:29

  conscience, I mean, not your own but that of the other. For why should my freedom be judged by another’s conscience?

• 2 Corinthians 3:17

  Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

• Galatians 2:4

  And this was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in the Messiah Jesus, so that they might enslave us;

• Galatians 5:1

  For freedom the Messiah has set us free; stand firm, then, and do not be subjected again to a yoke of slavery.

• Galatians 5:13

  For you were called to freedom, brothers; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve as slaves to one another.

• James 1:25

  But the one who looks intently into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and remains in it, becoming not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be happy in his doing.

• James 2:12

  So speak and so act as those who are about to be judged by the law of freedom.

• 1 Peter 2:16

  Live as free people, and not as having freedom as a cover for wickedness, but as slaves of God.

• 2 Peter 2:19

  promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what anyone is overcome, to this he is also enslaved.

And 1 more times.