Liberty
דְּרוֹרStrong’s H1865deror (de-ror)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Deror is the Hebrew word usually translated “liberty” and “flowing”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,”
Meaning
- A flowing, free run, libertyflowing (of myrrh) · liberty
How it's translated
- liberty 7
- flowing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- Exodus 1
- Leviticus 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 25:10And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
- Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
- Jeremiah 34:8This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
- Jeremiah 34:15And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
- Jeremiah 34:17Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Ezekiel 46:17But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them.
Hebrew dictionary
דְּרוֹר deror · liberty
1) a flowing, free run, liberty 1a) flowing (of myrrh) 1b) liberty
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “liberty” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LIB'ERTY, noun
[Latin libertas, from liber, free.]
- Freedom from restraint, in a general sense, and applicable to the body, or to the will or mind.
- Natural liberty consists in the power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, except from the laws of nature.
- Civil liberty is the liberty of men in a state of society, or natural liberty so far only abridged and restrained, as is necessary and expedient for the safety and interest of the society, state or nation.
- Political liberty is sometimes used as synonymous with civil liberty But it more properly designates the liberty of a nation, the freedom of a nation or state from all unjust abridgment of its rights and independence by another nation.
All definitions
- Religious liberty is the free right of adopting and enjoying opinions on religious subjects, and of worshiping the Supreme Being according to the dictates of conscience, without external control.
- liberty in metaphysics, as opposed to necessity, is the power of an agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, by which either is preferred to the other.
- Privilege; exemption; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; with a plural.
- Leave; permission granted.
- A space in which one is permitted to pass without restraint, and beyond which he may not lawfully pass; with a plural; as the liberties of a prison.
- Freedom of action or speech beyond the ordinary bounds of civility or decorum.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.