KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: A price or payment for release or deliverance. Sense 2: As a verb, to redeem, rescue, or deliver.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Exodus 21:30
Complete exact-word concordance
If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
If there be layed on him a summe of money, then he shall giue for the ransome of his life, whatsoeuer is layd vpon him.
When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
When thou takest the summe of the children of Israel, after their number, then shall they giue euery man a ransome for his soule vnto the LORD, when thou numbrest them, that there be no plague amongst them, when thou numbrest them.
1611 marginal noteHeb. them that are to be numbred.
1611 marginal noteNum. 1.2,5.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To redeem or deliver from captivity, punishment, an enemy, or death.
A price paid or means given for release, redemption, or deliverance from captivity, penalty, or a forfeited life.
