- ἄφεσις
- a letting go, dismissal
- ἄφεσις
- deliverance, pardon, complete forgiveness
- a sending away, a letting go, a release, pardon, complete forgiveness.
- ἄφεσις
- forgiveness
- G:N-F
- ἄφεσις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἀφίημι), [in LXX for יוֹבֵל, דְּרוֹר, etc. (see Deiss., BS, 98 ff.; MM, see word) ;]
__1. dismissal, release: Luk.4:18.
__2. Metaph., of sins (never in LXX), pardon, remission of penalty: ἁμαρτιῶν,; παραπτωμάτων, Eph.1:7; absol.,Refs
Mat.26:28, Mrk.1:4, Luk.1:77 3:3 24:47, Act.2:38 5:31 10:43 13:38 26:18, Col.1:14(cf. DB, ii, 56; DCG, i, 437, ii, 605; Cremer, 297 f.).†Refs
Mrk.3:29, Heb.9:22 10:18
SYN.: πάρεσις, which see (and cf. Tr., § xxxiii) (AS)
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
2) forgiveness or pardon, of sins (letting them go as if they had never been committed), remission of the penalty
ἄφεσις
aphesis
af'-es-is
From G863; freedom; (figuratively) pardon
KJV Usage: deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission.