This noun means 'freedom' in the legal sense of manumission from slavery. Leviticus 19:20 uses it in the same case law as H2666, specifying that the slave woman 'had not been given freedom.' The term denotes the formal status of being a free person rather than a slave. In Israelite law, slaves could be freed through various means—jubilee year, payment of redemption price, or voluntary manumission. The concept is important in Israel's self-understanding as a people freed from Egyptian slavery.