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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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Nehemiah 5:5
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Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
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1611 witness · Nehemiah 5:5 · retained source text

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and loe, wee bring into bondage our sonnes and our daughters, to bee seruants, and some of our daughters are brought vnto bondage already, neither is it in our power to redeeme them: for other men haue our lands and vineyards.

Complete reference index — all 40 verses
Exodus 6:6Exodus 13:13Exodus 13:15Exodus 34:20Leviticus 25:25Leviticus 25:26Leviticus 25:29Leviticus 25:32Leviticus 25:48Leviticus 25:49Leviticus 27:13Leviticus 27:15Leviticus 27:19Leviticus 27:20Leviticus 27:27Leviticus 27:31Numbers 18:15Numbers 18:16Numbers 18:17Ruth 4:4Ruth 4:62 Samuel 7:231 Chronicles 17:21Nehemiah 5:5Job 5:20Job 6:23Psalms 25:22Psalms 26:11Psalms 44:26Psalms 49:7Psalms 49:15Psalms 69:18Psalms 72:14Psalms 130:8Isaiah 50:2Jeremiah 15:21Hosea 13:14Micah 4:10Galatians 4:5Titus 2:14

Where “redeem” appears

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Exodus8 occurrences
4 versesLeviticus17 occurrences
12 versesNumbers4 occurrences
3 versesRuth8 occurrences
2 verses2 Samuel1 occurrence
1 verse1 Chronicles1 occurrence
1 verseNehemiah1 occurrence
1 verseJob2 occurrences
2 versesPsalms8 occurrences
8 versesIsaiah1 occurrence
1 verseJeremiah1 occurrence
1 verseHosea1 occurrence
1 verseMicah1 occurrence
1 verseGalatians1 occurrence
1 verseTitus1 occurrence
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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.

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)

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