Freedom
חֻפְֿשָׁהStrong’s H2668chuphshah (chuph-shah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chuphshah is the Hebrew word usually translated “freedom”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.”
Meaning
- Freedom
How it's translated
- freedom 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חֻפְֿשָׁה chuphshah · freedom
freedom
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “freedom” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FREE'DOM, noun
- A state of exemption from the power or control of another; liberty; exemption from slavery, servitude or confinement. freedom is personal, civil, political, and religious. [See Liberty.]
- Particular privileges; franchise; immunity; as the freedom of a city.
- Power of enjoying franchises.
- Exemption from fate, necessity, or any constraint in consequence of predetermination or otherwise; as the freedom of the will.
All definitions
- Any exemption from constraint or control.
- Ease or facility of doing any thing.
- Frankness; boldness.
- License; improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; with a plural.
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.