Lexical Summary aphesis: dismissal, release, pardon Original Word: ἄφεσιςTransliteration: aphesis Phonetic Spelling: (af'-es-is) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: dismissal, release, pardon Meaning: dismissal, release, pardon Strong's Concordance deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission. From aphiemi; freedom; (figuratively) pardon -- deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission. see GREEK aphiemi Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 859: ἄφεσιςἄφεσις, ἀφέσεως, ἡ (ἀφίημι); 1. release, as from bondage, imprisonment, etc.: Luke 4:18 (19) (Isaiah 61:1f; Polybius 1, 79, 12, etc.). 2. ἄφεσις ἁμαρτιῶν forgiveness, pardon, of sins (properly, the letting them go, as if they had not been committed (see at length Trench, § xxxiii.)), remission of their penalty: Matthew 26:28; Mark 1:4; Luke 1:77; Luke 3:3; Luke 24:47; Acts 2:38; Acts 5:31; Acts 10:43; Acts 13:38; Acts 26:18; Colossians 1:14; τῶν παραπτωμάτων, Ephesians 1:7; and simply ἄφεσις: Mark 3:29; Hebrews 9:22; Hebrews 10:18 (φόνου, Plato, legg. 9, p. 869 d.; ἐγκληματων, Diodorus 20, 44 (so Dionysius Halicarnassus 50:8 § 50, see also 7, 33; 7, 46; especially 7, 64; ἁμαρτημάτων, Philo, vit. Moys. 3:17; others.)). |
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