Topic
Freewoman
5 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 16:1ISBE
Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
- Galatians 4:10ISBE
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
- Galatians 4:22ISBE
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
- Galatians 4:23ISBE
But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
- Galatians 4:31ISBE
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 5 references
fre'-woom-an (eleuthera): Found but 4 times in the King James Version (Ga 4:22,23,10,31). In the first three passages it refers to Sarah, the freewoman and true wife of Abraham as in contrast with Hagar, the Egyptian slave girl who became his concubine (Ge 16:1). In the last passage a metaphorical application of the term is made to the Christians who are the children of promise, of freedom, of the spirit, the children of the freewoman, in contrast with the Jews who are the children of the letter, of bondage, of the bondwoman.
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.