KJV dictionary & concordance

redeem

Meaning of “redeem”

Sense 1: To buy back, repurchase, recover, or release a person or thing by payment, substitute, or appointed valuation. Sense 2: To rescue, free, or deliver from bondage, captivity, danger, death, enemies, trouble, the curse of the law, or iniquity.

Definition sources

Direct Scripture definitionKJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828

56 occurrences40 verses15 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Exodus 6:6

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1 Chronicles 17:21

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And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?

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The 1611 reading

1611 witness · 1 Chronicles 17:21 · retained source text

And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whome God went to redeeme to be his owne people, to make thee a name of greatnesse and terriblenesse, by driuing out nations from before thy people whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?

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Where “redeem” appears

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Exodus8 occurrences
4 verses Leviticus17 occurrences
12 verses Numbers4 occurrences
3 verses Ruth8 occurrences
2 verses 2 Samuel1 occurrence
1 verse 1 Chronicles1 occurrence
1 verse Nehemiah1 occurrence
1 verse Job2 occurrences
2 verses Psalms8 occurrences
8 verses Isaiah1 occurrence
1 verse Jeremiah1 occurrence
1 verse Hosea1 occurrence
1 verse Micah1 occurrence
1 verse Galatians1 occurrence
1 verse Titus1 occurrence
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Definition evidence

1 · Direct Scripture definition

Psalms 49:7

None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

Jeremiah 15:21

And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

Titus 2:14

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

2 · KJV context and cross-references

Exodus 6:6 Leviticus 25:25,49 Numbers 18:16 Psalm 49:7,15 Jeremiah 15:21 Titus 2:14 Psalms 49:7 Exodus 13:13 Leviticus 25:25 Galatians 4:5 Leviticus 25:29 Leviticus 27:15 1 Chronicles 17:21 Psalms 44:26 Psalms 130:8

Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

Webster 1828

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To purchase back; to ransom; to liberate or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or be forfeited, by paying an equivalent. To repurchase what has been sold; to regain possession of a thing alienated, by repaying the value of it to the possessor. To rescue; to recover; to deliver from.

volume 2, leaves 437-438 (transitive verb entry, senses 1-3)