KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Bought back, recovered, or released by payment, substitute, or appointed valuation. Sense 2: Rescued, freed, or delivered from bondage, evil, enemies, death, sin, the curse, or another stated power.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 48:16
Complete exact-word concordance
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
For as much as ye know that yee were not redeemed with corruptible things, as siluer and golde, from your vaine conuersation receiued by tradition from your fathers;
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1 · Direct Scripture definition
But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
2 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
Ransomed; delivered from bondage, distress, penalty, liability, or from the possession of another, by paying an equivalent.
