Words the Bible translates as release
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 12 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- aphiēmiἀφίημιto let go: to release your hold so a person or thing departs, stays behind, or is left where it is
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- to forgive: to cancel what is owed, whether a debt or a sin, so it is no longer charged against the person
- to let, allow, or leave alone: to permit something rather than stop or hinder it
- pataḥפָּתַחto open, loosen, or release: to move something closed or bound into an open state
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- to engrave or carve: to cut characters or images into a hard surface
- apoluōἀπολύωto let someone go: to set a person loose from a hold, a duty, or a relationship and send them on their way
- luōλύωto loose: to undo something that is tied, fastened, held, or bound together, whether a literal knot or a thing that holds people captive or in place.
- 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
- apallassōἀπαλλάσσωto releasenot studied yet
- apolutrōsisἀπολύτρωσιςthe setting of someone free from bondage, above all the release from sin that Christ secured by his death, along with the full freedom still to come
- patarפָּטַרto let go: to release a person from a duty, let something out that was held back, or break free of a grip
- shamatשָׁמַטto let drop: to let something fall out of your hold, whether an object, a field left unworked, or a debt you stop collecting
- 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.
- natarנָתַרto leap or spring: to jump off the ground, or to jolt suddenly, and so to make something else jump
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- to loosen or untie what holds something fast, and so to let a person or thing go free
- shemittahשְׁמִטָּהthe release: Deuteronomy's technical term for the seventh-year cancellation of debts, and for the year that release falls in
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