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
Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
Then hee is gracious vnto him, and sayth, Deliuer him from going downe to the pit; I haue found a ransome.
1611 marginal noteOr, an atonement.
Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransome cannot deliuer thee.
1611 marginal noteHeb. turn thee aside.
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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.
