Freedom
חׇפְשִׁיתStrong’s H2669chophshut (choph-shut)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chophshut is the Hebrew word usually translated “separateness”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the house, judging the people of the land.”
Meaning
- Separateness, freedom
How it's translated
- separateness 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
חׇפְשִׁית chophshut · freedom
separateness, 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.