chfshi · free

What it means

chfshi (חׇפְשִׁי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “free”.

No longer a slave; also free from duties.

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. Released from slavery.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• free ×16
• set loose ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×4
• Deuteronomy×3
• 1 Samuel×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×5

• Exodus 21:2

  When you buy a Hebrew slave, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free, without payment.

• Exodus 21:5

  But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my sons; I will not go out free,’

• Exodus 21:26

  When a man strikes the eye of his male slave or the eye of his female slave and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.

• Exodus 21:27

  And if he knocks out the tooth of his male slave or the tooth of his female slave, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth.

• Deuteronomy 15:12

  If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

• Deuteronomy 15:13

  And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed.

• Deuteronomy 15:18

  It shall not seem hard in your eyes when you let him go free from you, for twice the wages of a hired worker he has served you six years; and YHWH your Elohim will bless you in all that you do.

• 1 Samuel 17:25

  The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? Surely to reproach Israel he comes up. And it will be that the man who strikes him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and will make the house of his father free in Israel.”

• Job 3:19

  The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.

• Job 39:5

  Who sent out the wild donkey free, and the bonds of the onager who loosed?

• Psalms 88:5

  set loose among the dead, like the pierced who lie in the grave, whom you do not remember anymore, and they from your hand have been cut off.

• Isaiah 58:6

  Is this not the fast that I choose: to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, and to set free the crushed, and that you break every yoke?

• Jeremiah 34:9

  that each should let his slave and each his slave woman, the Hebrew man and the Hebrew woman, go free, so that no one should keep them as slaves, a Jew, his brother.

• Jeremiah 34:10

  And all the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant that each should let his slave and each his slave woman go free, so as not to keep them as slaves any longer; they obeyed and let them go.

• Jeremiah 34:11

  But afterward they turned back, and brought back the slaves and the slave women whom they had let go free, and subjected them to be slaves and slave women.

• Jeremiah 34:14

  At the end of seven years you shall let go, each one, his brother the Hebrew, who has been sold to you and has served you six years; and you shall let him go free from you. But your fathers did not listen to me, nor incline their ear.

• Jeremiah 34:16

  But you turned back and profaned my name, and brought back, each one, his slave and each one his slave woman, whom you had let go free at their own will, and you subjected them to be your slaves and slave women.