Chophshi חׇפְשִׁי

Chophshi (Hebrew חׇפְשִׁי, Strong's H2670) is a Hebrew adjective meaning “free”. It occurs 17 times in 17 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Chophshi, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

• Exodus 21:2
  If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
• Exodus 21:5
  And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’
• Exodus 21:26
  And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.
• Exodus 21:27
  And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 15:12
  And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.
• Deuteronomy 15:13
  And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.
• Deuteronomy 15:18
  It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 17:25
  And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.Now the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see this man who keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father’s house from taxation in Israel.”

Job

• Job 3:19
  The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
• Job 39:5
  Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?

Psalms

• Psalm 88:5
  Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 58:6
  Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 34:9
  That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.
• Jeremiah 34:10
  Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,
• Jeremiah 34:11
  But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
• Jeremiah 34:14
  At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.
• Jeremiah 34:16
  But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).