Word Summary
eleutheroō: to make free, to exempt (from liability)
Original Word: ἐλευθερόωTransliteration: eleutheroō
Phonetic Spelling: (el-yoo-ther-o'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to make free, to exempt (from liability)
Meaning: to make free, to exempt (from liability)
Strong's Concordance
deliver, make free.
From eleutheros; to liberate, i.e. (figuratively) to exempt (from moral, ceremonial or mortal liability) -- deliver, make free.
see GREEK eleutheros
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1659: ἐλευθερόωἐλευθερόω,
ἐλευθέρω: future
ἐλευθερώσω; 1 aorist
ἠλευθερωσα; passive, 1 aorist
ἠλευθερωθην; 1 future
ἐλευθερωθήσομαι; (
ἐλεύθερος); (from
Aeschylus down);
to make free, set at liberty: from the dominion of sin,
John 8:32, 36;
τινα ἀπό τίνος, one from another's control (
Winers Grammar, 196f (185);
Buttmann, 157f (138)):
ἀπό τοῦ νόμου τάς ἁμαρτίας καί τοῦ θανάτου (see
νόμος, 1),
Romans 8:2;
ἀπό τάς ἁμαρτίας, from the dominion of sin,
Romans 6:18, 22;
ἀπό τάς δουλείας τῆς φθορᾶς εἰς τήν ἐλευθερίαν,
to liberate from bondage (see
δουλεία) and to bring (transfer)
into etc. (see
εἰς, C. 1),
Romans 8:21; with a dative commodi,
τῇ ἐλευθερία, that we might be possessors of liberty,
Galatians 5:1; cf.
Buttmann, § 133, 12 (and
Lightfoot at the passage).