Free
חׇפְשִׁיStrong’s H2670chophshi (choph-shi)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chophshi is the Hebrew word usually translated “free” and “set free”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.”
Meaning
- Freefree (from slavery) · free (from taxes or obligations)
How it's translated
- free 8
- a free 5
- to free 3
- a set free 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 5
- Exodus 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- Job 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 21:5And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
- Exodus 21:26And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
- Exodus 21:27And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
- Deuteronomy 15:12And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
- Deuteronomy 15:13And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
- Deuteronomy 15:18It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
Hebrew dictionary
חׇפְשִׁי chophshi · free
1) free 1a) free (from slavery) 1b) free (from taxes or obligations)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “free” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FREE, noun
[Heb. See Frank.]
- Being at liberty; not being under necessity or restraint, physical or moral; a word of general application to the body, the will or mind, and to corporations.
- In government, not enslaved; not in a state of vassalage or dependence; subject only to fixed laws, made by consent, and to a regular administration of such laws; not subject to the arbitrary will of a sovereign or lord; as a free state, nation or people.
- Instituted by a free people, or by consent or choice of those who are to be subjects, and securing private rights and privileges by fixed laws and principles; not arbitrary or despotic; as a free constitution or government.
- Not imprisoned, confined or under arrest; as, the prisoner is set free
All definitions and other forms of “free”
- Unconstrained; unrestrained; not under compulsion or control.
- Permitted; allowed; open; not appropriated; as, places of honor and confidence are free to all; we seldom hear of a commerce perfectly free
- Not obstructed; as, the water has a free passage or channel; the house is open to a free current of air.
- Licentious; unrestrained.
- Open; candid; frank; ingenuous; unreserved; as, we had a free conversation together.
- Liberal in expenses; not parsimonious; as a free purse; a man is free to give to all useful institutions.
- Gratuitous; not gained by importunity or purchase.
- Clear of crime or offense; guiltless; innocent.
- Not having feeling or suffering; clear; exempt; with from; as free from pain or disease; free from remorse.
- Not encumbered with; as free from a burden.
- Open to all, without restriction or without expense; as a free school.
- Invested with franchises; enjoying certain immunities; with of; as a man free of the city of London.
- Possessing without vassalage or slavish conditions; as free of his farm.
- Liberated from the government or control of parents, or of a guardian or master.
- Ready; eager; not dull; acting without spurring or shipping; as a free horse.
- Genteel; charming. [Not in use.]
FREE, verb transitive
- To remove from a thing any encumbrance or obstruction; to disengage from; to rid; to strip; to clear; as, to free the body from clothes; to free the feet from fetters; to free a channel from sand.
- To set at liberty; to rescue or release from slavery, captivity or confinement; to loose.
- To disentangle; to disengage.
- To exempt.“He that is dead is freed from sin” Romans 6:7
- To manumit; to release from bondage; as, to free a slave.
- To clear from water, as a ship by pumping.
- To release from obligation or duty.
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.