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# חׇפְשִׁי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2670

**free** — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

free [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2670/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָפְשִׁי: adj. free [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2670/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. free (NH id.)—ח׳ Ex 21:5 + 10 times + ψ 88:6; pl. חָפְשִׁים Is 58:6 + 4 times— free from slavery: of Hebrew bondslave (male or female) set free in 7th year Ex 21:2, 5 (JE), Dt 15:12, 13, 18, cf. Je 34:9, 10, 11, 14, 16; of slave (male or female) set free on account of injury done Ex 21:26, 27 (JE); עֶבֶד ח׳ מֵאֲדֹנָיו Jb 3:19 a slave is free from his master (i.e. in Sheʾôl); but בַּמֵּתִים חָפְשִׁי ψ 88:6 among the dead I am free (i.e. adrift, cut off from Yahweh’s remembrance); more gen., שַׁלַּח רְצוּצִים חָפְשִׁים Is 58:6 to let oppressed ones go free. free from taxes, obligations, etc. אֵת בֵּית אָבִיו יַעֲשֶׂה חָפְשִׁי בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל 1 S 17:25 his father’s house will he make free in Israel.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a free \[person\] (5); free \[people\] (4); \[person\] (3).

## In the verses

[Job 39:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.5/#tree)

מִֽי־שִׁלַּ֣ח פֶּ֣רֶא חָפְשִׁ֑י וּמֹסְר֥וֹת עָ֝ר֗וֹד מִ֣י פִתֵּֽחַ׃

*Word for word:* who? did.he.let.loose \[the\].wild.donkey free and.\[the\] fetters of.\[the\].wild.ass who? did.he.loosen

*JPS 1917:* Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

[Job 3:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.19/#tree)

קָטֹ֣ן וְ֭גָדוֹל שָׁ֣ם ה֑וּא וְ֝עֶ֗בֶד חָפְשִׁ֥י מֵאֲדֹנָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* small and great \[is\].there he and a.slave \[is\].free from master(s) his

*JPS 1917:* The small and great are there alike; and the servant is free from his master.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2670.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2670/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).