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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.

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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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Psalms 26:11
But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 26:11 · retained source text

But as for mee, I will walke in mine integritie: redeeme me, and bee mercifull vnto me.

Psalms 44:26
Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 44:26 · retained source text

Arise for our helpe, and redeeme vs for thy mercies sake.

1611 marginal noteHeb. a help for vs.

Psalms 49:7
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 49:7 · retained source text

None of them can by any meanes redeeme his brother, nor giue to God a ransome for him:

Psalms 49:15
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 49:15 · retained source text

But God will redeeme my soule from the power of the graue; for he shall receiue me. Selah.

1611 marginal noteHeb. from the hand of the graue.

1611 marginal noteOr, hell.

Psalms 69:18
Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 69:18 · retained source text

Draw nigh vnto my soule, and redeeme it: deliuer me because of mine enemies.

Psalms 72:14
He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 72:14 · retained source text

He shall redeeme their soule from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

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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

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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