KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: The act or right of buying back, recovering, or releasing a person or possession, commonly by a price. Sense 2: Deliverance from bondage, sin, transgression, death, or another stated evil; in Christ, through his blood and by means of death.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Leviticus 25:24
Complete exact-word concordance
And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.
And she comming in that instant, gaue thankes likewise vnto the Lord, and spake of him to al them that looked for redemption in Hierusalem.
1611 marginal noteOr, Israel.
And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
And when these things begin to come to passe, then looke vp, and lift vp your heads, for your redemptiou draweth nigh.
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1 · Direct Scripture definition
So Hanameel mine uncle’s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the Lord, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
2 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
A buying back; deliverance by payment of a price.
Repurchase of captured goods or prisoners; the act of procuring the deliverance of persons or things from the possession and power of captors by the payment of an equivalent; ransom; release. Deliverance from bondage, distress, or from liability to any evil or forfeiture, either by money, labor or other means. Repurchase, as of lands alienated.
