Quick Definition
ἐλευθερία, ας, ἡ n.f. freedom, liberty
Strong's Definition
from 1658; freedom (legitimate or licentious, chiefly moral or ceremonial)
KJV Usage: liberty
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ας | ἐλευθερόω
37.133 · Control, Rule · Release, Set Free
to be free, freedom the state of being free In a number of languages the concept of freedom is expressed as a negation of control or domination, for example, ‘where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is no longer domination’ or ‘... a person is not dominated’ or ‘... a person does not feel under constraint.’
ROM 8:21 · 1CO 10:29 · 2CO 3:17 · GAL 2:4 · GAL 5:1 · GAL 5:13 · GAL 5:13 · JAS 1:25 · JAS 2:12 · 1PE 2:16 · 2PE 2:19
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐλευθερία, -as, ἡ. (ἐλεύθερος), liberty, [fr. Pind., Hat. down]; in the N.'T. 4. liberty to do or to omit things having no relation to salvation, 1 Co. x. 29; from the yoke of the Mosaic law, Gal. ii. 4; v. 1,13; 1 Pet. ii. 16; from Jewish errors so blinding the mental vision that it does not discern the majesty of Christ, 2 Co. iii. 17; freedom from the dominion of corrupt desires, so that we do by the free impulse of the soul what the will of God requires : 6 νόμος τῆς ἐλευθερίας, i. e. the Christian religion, which furnishes that rule of right living by which the liberty just mentioned is attained, Jas. i. 25; ii. 12; freedom from the restraints and miseries of earthly frailty: so in the expression ἡ ἐλευθερία τῆς δόξης (epexeget. gen. [W. 531 (494) ]), manifested in the glorious condition of the future life, Ro. viii. 21. Ὁ. fancied liberty, i. e. license, the liberty to do as one pleases, 2 Pet. ii. 19. J.C. Erler, Commentatio exeg. de libertatis christianae notione in N. T. libris obvia, 1830, (an essay I have never had the good fortune to see).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐλευθερία eleutheria 11x
liberty, freedom, 1 Cor. 10:29; Gal. 2:4
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἐλευθερία, -ας, ἡ
[in LXX: Le 19:20 (חֻפְשָׁה), I Es 4:49, 53, Si 7:21, 33:25, I Mac 14:27, III Mac 3:28 * ;]
liberty: with reference to the religious life, I Co 10:29, II Co 3:17, Ga 2:4 5:1, I Pe 2:16, II Pe 2:19; ὁ νόμος τῆς ἐ., Ja 1:25 2:12; ἡ ἐ. τῆς δόξης, Ro 8:21; ἐπ’ ἐ., Ga 5:13 (on which formula, cf. Deiss., LAE, 327 ff.; Cremer, 251).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐλευθερία. The historical background which lends so much significance to the Pauline descriptions of the ἐλευθερία which His people enjoy in Christ, has been vividly presented by Deissmann 7.41.5 p. 324 ff. Here, in illustration of the phrase én’ ἐλευθερίᾳ in Gal 51°, it must be enough to recall the interesting Delphi inscription of B.c. 200-199, Sy// 8454 ἐπρίατο o’Amdh\wv ὁ Πύθιος παρὰ Σωσιβίου ᾿Αμφισσέος ἐπ᾽ ἐλευθερίαι σῶμ[ α] γυναικεῖον, dt ὄνομα Νίκαια, τὸ γένος “Popatay, τιμᾶς (cf. 1 Cor 650, 723) ἀργυρίου μνᾶν τριῶν Kal ἡμιμναίου.. . . τὰν δὲ ὠνὰν ἐπίστευσε Νίκαια τῶι ᾿Απόλλωνι ἐπ᾽ ἐλευθερίαι, “the Pythian Apollo bought from Sosibius of Amphissa, for freedom, a female slave, whose name is Nicaea, by race a Roman, with a price of three minae and a half of silver. . . . The purchase, however, Nicaea hath committed unto Apollo, for freedom.” The same phrase is found in BGU IV. 114124 (B.c. 14) ὡς δοῦλος ἐπ᾽ ἐλευθερίᾳ θέλει ἀρέσαι, οὕτω κἀγὼ τὴν φιλίαν σου θέλων ἄμεμπτ[ον] ἐματὸν ἐτήρησα. ἐλεημοσύνη 203
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἐλευθερία (eleutheria) — freedom. ἐλευθ-ερία, Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, freedom, liberty, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; δι᾽ ἐλευθερίας μόλις ἐξῆλθες, i.e. μόλις ἠλευθερώθης, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; freedom from a thing, ἀπὸ πασῶν ἀρχῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+] __b manumission, ἡ εἰκοστὴ τῶν ἐ.,= Latin vicesima manumissionum, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
2. licence, ἀκολασία καὶ ἐ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Diogenes, [Refs 4th c.AD+]
3. later, ={ἐλευθεριότης}, [Refs]
4. name of a dance, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]