Words the Bible translates as remission

English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.

aphesisἄφεσιςforgiveness: 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
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- release: the setting free of captives and the liberty proclaimed for the oppressed
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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Every English meaning beginning with R is on its letter page, and the whole index starts at Browse.