eleutheros · free

What it means

eleutheros (ἐλεύθερος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “free”.

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. A person who belongs to no master and is in charge of their own life.
2. Free from a tie or obligation.

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

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• John×2
• Romans×2
• 1 Corinthians×6
• Galatians×6
• Ephesians×1
• Colossians×1
• 1 Peter×1
• Revelation×3

• Matthew 17:26

  And when he said, “From strangers,” Jesus said to him, “Then indeed the sons are free.

• John 8:33

  They answered him, “We are the offspring of Abraham and have never been slaves to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”

• John 8:36

  So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

• Romans 6:20

  For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

• Romans 7:3

  So then, while the husband is living, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes the wife of another man; but if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if she becomes the wife of another man.

• 1 Corinthians 7:21

  Were you called as a slave? Do not let it concern you. But if indeed you can become free, rather make use of it.

• 1 Corinthians 7:22

  For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman; likewise the one who was called as free is the Messiah’s slave.

• 1 Corinthians 7:39

  A wife is bound for as long a time as her husband lives; but if the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

• 1 Corinthians 9:1

  Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

• 1 Corinthians 9:19

  For though I am free from all, I enslaved myself to all, so that I might win the more people.

• 1 Corinthians 12:13

  For indeed in one Spirit we all were immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and all were given one Spirit to drink.

• Galatians 3:28

  There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither slave nor free; there is no male and female; for you are all one in the Messiah Jesus.

• Galatians 4:22

  For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman.

• Galatians 4:23

  But the son of the slave woman was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.

• Galatians 4:26

  But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

• Galatians 4:30

  But what does the Scripture say? Drive out the slave woman and her son; for the son of the slave woman will never inherit with the son of the free woman.

• Galatians 4:31

  Therefore, brothers, we are not children of a slave woman but of the free woman.

• Ephesians 6:8

  knowing that each one, whatever good he does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.

• Colossians 3:11

  where there is no Greek or Jew, circumcision or uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free, but the Messiah is all and in all.

• 1 Peter 2:16

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

• Revelation 6:15

  And the kings of the earth and the great ones and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free person hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;

• Revelation 13:16

  And it causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,

• Revelation 19:18

  so that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders and the flesh of the mighty and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all, both free and slave, and small and great.”