King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G859
Transliteration: aphesis
Phonetic Spelling: (af'-es-is)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: dismissal, release, pardon
Meaning: dismissal, release, pardon
ἄφεσις, ἀφέσεως, ἡ (ἀφίημι);
Word Summary
aphesis: dismissal, release, pardon
Original Word: ἄφεσιςTransliteration: aphesis
Phonetic Spelling: (af'-es-is)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: dismissal, release, pardon
Meaning: dismissal, release, pardon
Strong's Concordance
deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission. From aphiemi; freedom; (figuratively) pardon -- deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission.
see GREEK aphiemi
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 859: ἄφεσιςἄφεσις, ἀφέσεως, ἡ (ἀφίημι);
1. release, as from bondage, imprisonment, etc.: Luke 4:18 (19) (Isaiah 61:1f; Polybius 1, 79, 12, etc.).
2. ἄφεσις ἁμαρτιῶν forgiveness, pardon, of sins (properly, the letting them go, as if they had not been committed (see at length Trench, § xxxiii.)), remission of their penalty: Matthew 26:28; Mark 1:4; Luke 1:77; Luke 3:3; Luke 24:47; Acts 2:38; Acts 5:31; Acts 10:43; Acts 13:38; Acts 26:18; Colossians 1:14; τῶν παραπτωμάτων, Ephesians 1:7; and simply ἄφεσις: Mark 3:29; Hebrews 9:22; Hebrews 10:18 (φόνου, Plato, legg. 9, p. 869 d.; ἐγκληματων, Diodorus 20, 44 (so Dionysius Halicarnassus 50:8 § 50, see also 7, 33; 7, 46; especially 7, 64; ἁμαρτημάτων, Philo, vit. Moys. 3:17; others.)).