KJV dictionary & concordance
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
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Exodus 6:6
Complete exact-word concordance
In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
In famine he shall redeeme thee from death: and in warre from the power of the sword.
1611 marginal noteHeb. from the hands.
Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
Or deliuer me from the enemies hand, or redeeme me from the hand of the mighty?
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Source order
1 · Direct Scripture definition
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
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
Historical English dictionary sources
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.
