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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

FREEDMAN; FREEMAN

fred'-man, fre'-man: The term occurs in 1 Corinthians 7:22 Colossians 3:11, and Revelation 6:15, and represents two slightly different words. In 1 Corinthians 7:22 the word is apeleutheros, "a freeman," one who was born a slave and has received freedom. In this case it refers to spiritual freedom. He that was in bondage to sin has been presented with spiritual freedom by the Lord. In Revelation 6:15 the word is simply eleutheros, "a free man" as opposed to a slave.

Greek

558. apeleutheros -- one freed away, ie a freedman
... one freed away, ie a freedman. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration:
apeleutheros Phonetic Spelling: (ap-el-yoo'-ther-os) Short Definition: a ...
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3032. Libertinos -- Freedman, the name of a synagogue
... Freedman, the name of a synagogue. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration:
Libertinos Phonetic Spelling: (lib-er-tee'-nos) Short Definition: a freedman ...
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Library

Slaves and Free
... As the text puts it, 'He that is called, being a servant, is the Lord's freedman.'
A freedman was one who was emancipated, and who therefore stood in a ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/slaves and free.htm

Christianity in Rome.
... Many of them became very wealthy, even millionnaires. The rich freedman was in
that age the type of the vulgar, impudent, bragging upstart. ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 36 christianity in rome.htm

Quotations from the Lxx. In Early Christian Writings.
... speaking Jews, the freedmen of Roman families; and Clement himself, as Lightfoot
has suggested [858] , was probably of Jewish descent and a freedman or the son ...
/.../chapter iii quotations from the.htm

The Epistle to the Colossians.
... [1148] Epictetus ( Epiktetos), a slave and then a freedman of Epaphroditus (who
was himself a freedman of Nero), was considerably younger than Paul, and taught ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 94 the epistle to.htm

Christian Cemeteries.
... The petitioner, Arrius Alphius, a favorite freedman of the mother of Antoninus Pius,
writes to the high priests: "Having lost at the same time wife and son, I ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter vii christian cemeteries.htm

Note 1
... Antiquities and Life, is a more doubtful case; but the dedication implies that he
was a man of influence in Rome, and though obviously a freedman (on account ...
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Paul Before Felix.
... Felix, before whom he was appointed to plead, was a freedman of the emperor Claudius,
by whom he had been entrusted with the government of Judea. ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture xxvii paul before felix.htm

Roman Chronology to the Death of M. Aurelius.
... For if any one is anxious to learn them, he will ascertain them from the tables
which Chryserus the nomenclator compiled: he was a freedman of Aurelius Verus ...
/.../theophilus/theophilus to autolycus/chapter xxvii roman chronology to the.htm

Tryphena and Tryphosa
... Aristobulus was a grandson of Herod the Great, and Narcissus was a well-known freedman,
whose slaves at his death would probably become the property of the ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/tryphena and tryphosa.htm

Prolegomena
... The presence among them of Hylas (Jerome Letter III, 3) the freedman of Melania,
the wealthy and ascetic Roman matron, shows that that relation had already ...
/.../life and works of rufinus with jeromes apology against rufinus /prolegomena.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) A man who has been a slave, and has been set free.

Thesaurus

Freedman (1 Occurrence)
... (n.) A man who has been a slave, and has been set free. Int. Standard Bible
Encyclopedia. FREEDMAN; FREEMAN. ... Multi-Version Concordance Freedman (1 Occurrence). ...
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Subapostolic
... Lightfoot, with some probability, supposes (Apostolic Fathers, I, 61) that Clement
was a "freedman or the son of freedman, belonging to the household of ...
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Sub-apostolic
... Lightfoot, with some probability, supposes (Apostolic Fathers, I, 61) that Clement
was a "freedman or the son of freedman, belonging to the household of ...
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Procurator
... But Claudius appointed a freedman, Antonius Felix, brother of the famous minister
of finance, Pallas, as procurator of Judea (Suetonius, Claudius xxviii ...
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Nero
... opened. With the assistance of the emperor's freedman, Pallas, Agrippina
proved the successful candidate for Claudius' affections. ...
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Freed (32 Occurrences)

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Narcissus (2 Occurrences)
... On the other hand, Bishop Lightfoot (Phil, 175) holds that "the powerful
freedman Narcissus, whose wealth was proverbial (Juv. Sat. ...
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Freeman (9 Occurrences)
... the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman. Int. Standard Bible
Encyclopedia. FREEDMAN; FREEMAN. fred'-man, fre'-man: The term ...
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Freedom (45 Occurrences)
... Under the Roman law the "freeman" (ingenuus) was one born free; the "freedman"
(libertinus) was a manumitted slave, and had not equal rights with the freeman ...
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Freedmen (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) Plural of Freedman. Multi-Version Concordance
Freedmen (1 Occurrence). Acts 6:9 And there arose up ...
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Bible Concordance

Freedman (1 Occurrence)

1 Corinthians 7:22 For he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise he that was called being free, is Christ's bondservant.
(ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

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