ἐλευθερόω
to free
‘to free’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (29%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (29%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (14%)
- Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (14%)
- Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (14%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 7 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1659 appears — 7 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
John 2 verses
Romans 4 verses
- Romans 6:18 ἐλευθερωθέντες aor pass ptcp nom pl masc Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
- Romans 6:22 ἐλευθερωθέντες aor pass ptcp nom pl masc But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
- Romans 8:2 ἠλευθέρωσέν aor act ind 3sg For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
- Romans 8:21 ἐλευθερωθήσεται fut pass ind 3sg that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
Galatians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
ελευθεροω — transliterated eleutheróō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to free.” Its uses cluster heavily in Romans (57% of all occurrences). Spanning 7 verses in 3 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its earliest occurrence is John 8:32. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1659 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 71%
- Gospels 2 verses · 29%
- Johannine 2 verses · 29%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Free 4×, Hath made 2×, Shall make 2×
- American Standard Version: Free 3×, Shall make 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: You have been set free 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Free 2×, Having been freed 2×, Set 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1659 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1659 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1659 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1659 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to make free
- set at liberty: from the dominion of sin
Word origin
Derived from ελευθερος (eleútheros) (G1658) — free.
From G1658 ; to liberate that is (figuratively) to exempt (from moral ceremonial or mortal liability): - deliver make free.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G1659 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐλευθερωθέντες eleutherōthéntes | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Romans 6:18 | 2 |
| ἐλευθερωθήσεται eleutherōthḗsetai | Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Romans 8:21 | 1 |
| ἐλευθερώσει eleutherṓsei | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | John 8:32 | 1 |
| ἐλευθερώσῃ eleutherṓsē | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | John 8:36 | 1 |
| ἠλευθέρωσέν ēleuthérōsén | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Romans 8:2 | 1 |
| ἠλευθέρωσεν ēleuthérōsen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Galatians 5:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1659, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ελευθεροω appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Proverbs 25:10 ἐλευθερόω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1659) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1659) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
