(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 49:8 · retained source text
(For the redemption of their soule is precious, and it ceaseth for euer.)
KJV dictionary & concordance
redemption
Meaning of “redemption”
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
Direct Scripture definitionKJV context and cross-referencesCawdrey 1604Webster 1828
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First occurrence: Leviticus 25:24
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Every verse containing “redemption”
He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 111:9 · retained source text
He sent redemption vnto his people, hee hath commanded his couenant for euer: holy and reuerend is his Name.
Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 130:7 · retained source text
Let Israel hope in the LORD, for with the LORD there is mercy: and with him is plenteous redemption.
Where “redemption” appears
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1 · Direct Scripture definition
Jeremiah 32:8
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.
Ephesians 1:7
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Hebrews 9:15
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.
Romans 8:23
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
Historical definitions
Cawdrey 1604
Open source edition ↗A buying back; deliverance by payment of a price.
Webster 1828
Open source edition ↗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.