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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

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Exodus 6:6

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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
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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
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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.

Isaiah 50:2
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 50:2 · retained source text

Wherefore when I came was there no man? when I called, was there none to answere? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeeme? or haue I no power to deliuer? Beholde, at my rebuke I drie vp the sea: I make the riuers a wildernes: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

1611 marginal noteNum. 11.23. chap. 59.1.

1611 marginal noteExod. 14.21.

1611 marginal noteIosh.3.16

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.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 15:21 · retained source text

And I will deliuer thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeeme thee out of the hand of the terrible.

Hosea 13:14
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Hosea 13:14 · retained source text

I will ransome them from the power of the graue: I will redeeme them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues, O graue, I will be thy destruction; repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

1611 marginal noteHebr. the hand.

1611 marginal note1.Cor.15.55.

Micah 4:10
Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
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1611 witness · Micah 4:10 · retained source text

Bee in paine and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in trauell: for now shalt thou goe foorth out of the citie, and thou shalt dwel in the field, and thou shalt go euen to Babylon: there shalt thou be deliuered: there the LORD shall redeeme thee from the hand of thine enemies.

Galatians 4:5
To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Galatians 4:5 · retained source text

To redeeme them that were vnder the Law, that we might receiue the adoption of sonnes.

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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Titus 2:14 · retained source text

Who gaue himselfe for vs, that he might redeeme vs from all iniquitie, and purifie vnto himselfe a peculiar people, zealous of good workes.

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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.

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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