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

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Exodus 6:6

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2 Samuel 7:23

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And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

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The 1611 reading & marginal notes

1611 witness · 2 Samuel 7:23 · retained source text

And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, euen like Israel, whom God went to redeeme for a people to himselfe, & to make him a name, and to doe for you great things, and terrible, for thy lande, before thy people which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations, and their gods?

1611 marginal noteDeut. 4.7.

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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)