Words the Bible translates as liberty
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- aphesisἄφεσιςrelease: the setting free of captives and the liberty proclaimed for the oppressed
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- forgiveness: the cancellation of the guilt and penalty of sin, God's pardon that lets the offense go and no longer counts it against the person
- eleutheriaἐλευθερίαfreedom: the state of being held by no master and no claim, and in the New Testament above all the release Christ gives from sin and from the law's hold
- derorדְּרוֹרa proclaimed release: a public announcement that people enslaved for debt go free and that forfeited family land goes back to the households it came from.
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- free-flowing: of myrrh, the resin that seeps out of the tree on its own.
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