ἄφεσις in the New Testament

Definitions

Thayer

1) release from bondage or imprisonment
2) forgiveness or pardon, of sins (letting them go as if they had never been committed), remission of the penalty
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Citing in TDNT: 1:509, 88

Strong

G859
From G863; freedom; (figuratively) pardon: - deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission.

Louw-Nida

GlossSection
b liberty37.132
a pardon40.8

Classical Greek Dictionaries

These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.

Perseus Digital Library

University of Chicago's Logion lexicon

Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen

Strong's dictionary

Crosswalk

Thayer's dictionary plus other information.

LaParola

From this site's dictionary (in Italian)

In the New Testament

SBL (also Westcott and Hort; Tischendorf; Byzantine)

2
12
3
Total17

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