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
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Citing in TDNT: 1:509, 88
G859
From G863; freedom; (figuratively) pardon: - deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission.
| Gloss | Section |
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| b liberty | 37.132 |
| a pardon | 40.8 |
These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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