Lexicon
חׇפְשִׁי
choph.shi
H2670
H:A Hebrew

free

17
Occurrences
7
Books
Hebrew
Language

choph.shi describes release from a master's service or other restraint, including a servant's departure and a wild donkey sent out unbound.

The attested use chiefly describes persons released from compulsory service: servants are sent away and no longer serve their masters. The same status appears for the oppressed being set loose, a servant being beyond his lords, and a wild donkey sent out without bonds; in Psalm 88:6, the translation does not isolate the term's contribution.

Senses in use

  1. Released from service or restraint · dominant

    The masculine absolute adjective occurs where a Hebrew servant is sent away after service in Exodus 21:2 and Deuteronomy 15:12, and where servants are no longer to serve their owners in Jeremiah 34:9. It also describes the oppressed whom the APB renders as set free in Isaiah 58:6, the servant who is free from his lords in Job 3:19, and the wild donkey sent out free in Job 39:5.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the servant-release clauses, the APB repeatedly uses “free” and “send him away free from you”; it likewise says that the oppressed are “set... free” and the wild donkey is sent out “free.” Psalm 88:6 does not show an identifiable English rendering for this term.

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