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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Free, or released, from some obligation to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service.

2. (a.) Cut off; set apart.

3. (a.) Extraordinary; exceptional.

4. (n.) One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.

5. (n.) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.

6. (v.) To remove; to set apart.

7. (v.) To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain.

Greek

1659. eleutheroo -- to make free, fig. to exempt (from liability)
... to exempt (from liability). Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: eleutheroo Phonetic
Spelling: (el-yoo-ther-o'-o) Short Definition: I free, set free, liberate ...
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1658. eleutheros -- free, ie not a slave or not under restraint
... word Definition free, ie not a slave or not under restraint NASB Word Usage exempt
(1), free (12), free man (2), free men (3), free woman (4), freeman (1). ...
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373. anapauo -- to give rest, give intermission from labor, by ...
... From ana and pauo; (reflexively) to repose (literally or figuratively (be exempt),
remain); by implication, to refresh -- take ease, refresh, (give, take) rest ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5355a. naqi -- clean, free from, exempt
... 5355, 5355a. naqi. 5355b . clean, free from, exempt. Transliteration: naqi
Short Definition: innocent. Word Origin from naqah Definition ...
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5355. naqiy -- clean, free from, exempt
... 5354, 5355. naqiy. 5355a . clean, free from, exempt. Transliteration: naqiy
Phonetic Spelling: (naw-kee') Short Definition: blameless. ...
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2670. chophshi -- free
... free, liberty. From chaphash; exempt (from bondage, tax or care) -- free, liberty.
see HEBREW chaphash. 2669, 2670. chophshi. 2671 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

No Soul Naturally Exempt from Dreams.
... Chapter XLIX."No Soul Naturally Exempt from Dreams. As for those persons
who suppose that infants do not dream, on the ground ...
/.../tertullian/a treatise on the soul/chapter xlix no soul naturally exempt.htm

They who Ask this have not as yet Known the Eternity of God, which ...
... Book XI. Chapter XI."They Who Ask This Have Not as Yet Known the Eternity
of God, Which is Exempt from the Relation of Time. 13. ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/chapter xi they who ask this.htm

Who are the Select Gods, and Whether they are Held to be Exempt ...
... Book VII. Chapter 2."Who are the Select Gods, and Whether They are Held
to Be Exempt from the Offices of the Commoner Gods. The ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 2 who are the select.htm

Whether a Man Can Justly Judge one who is not Subject to his ...
... is not the subject of the man whose business it is to judge in that particular place,
for instance when the defendant belongs to another diocese or is exempt. ...
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Whether all are Subject to the Law?
... Justin. i, ff., tit.3, De Leg. et Senat.] that "the sovereign is exempt from the
laws." But he that is exempt from the law is not bound thereby. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether all are subject to.htm

Whether the Punishment of Christians is Brought to an End by the ...
... of faith, and yet have not faith, without which "it is impossible to please God"
(Heb.11:6). Wherefore others said that those alone will be exempt from eternal ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the punishment of christians.htm

Who is the Greatest?
... But Peter only partially comprehended the purpose of his questioner. There were
some classes who were held to be exempt from the payment of the tribute. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/white/the desire of ages/chapter 48 who is the.htm

Whether Religious are Bound to Manual Labor?
... For religious are not exempt from the observance of precepts. ... And since all cannot
do this, why should all make this a pretext for being exempt? ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether religious are bound to.htm

Of Religion.
... of gods must ever in itself of necessity enjoy immortality together with supreme
repose, far removed and withdrawn from our concerns; since, exempt from every ...
/.../a treatise on the anger of god addressed to donatus/chap viii of religion.htm

Several Other Things Turned against the Same Mathematicians.
... But if they are by nature exempt from these, and in no want of anything, how should
they be the causes to men of those things which they do not will themselves ...
/.../chapter xvi several other things turned.htm

Thesaurus

Exempt (4 Occurrences)
... from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; --
(with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a ...
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Immortal (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying;
imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existence. ...
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Free (454 Occurrences)
... 1. (superl.) Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint,
control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or ...
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Epicureans (1 Occurrence)
... nature of the gods must ever in itself of necessity enjoy immortality with supreme
repose, far removed and withdrawn from our concerns; since exempt from every ...
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Unimpeachable (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Not impeachable; not to be called in question; exempt
from liability to accusation; free from stain, guilt, or fault ...
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Infallible (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Not capable of erring; entirely exempt
from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable. 2. (a.) Not ...
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Immune (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Protected by inoculation; exempt, as in immune from
prosecution. Multi-Version Concordance Immune (1 Occurrence). ...
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Troas (6 Occurrences)
... of Asia. Its citizens were then exempt from poll and land tax. During Byzantine
times Troas was the seat of a bishopric. The ruins ...
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Release (61 Occurrences)
... shemiTTah (Deuteronomy 15:1, 2, 9; Deuteronomy 31:10; see JUBILEE YEAR)), with verb
shamaT, "to release," Deuteronomy 31:2, 3. (2) To exempt from taxation or ...
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Exempted (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Exempt. Multi-Version Concordance
Exempted (1 Occurrence). 1 Kings 15:22 Then king Asa made ...
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Bible Concordance

Exempt (4 Occurrences)

Matthew 17:26 Peter said to him, "From strangers." Jesus said to him, "Therefore the children are exempt.
(WEB NAS NIV)

1 Samuel 17:25 The men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who is come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. It shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel."
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1 Kings 15:22 Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah; none was exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 9:33 These are the singers, heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, who lived in the chambers and were
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Subtopics

Exempt

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