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Redemption

ἀπολύτρωσις · Apolutrōsis · G629

Redemption refers to liberation, release, recovery, or rescue, often involving the payment of a price or the action of a kinsman-redeemer.

10 Scripture references3 lexical sources16 supporting resources

Primary Study

Grafted Bible Dictionary

Definition

Redemption refers to liberation, release, recovery, or rescue, often involving the payment of a price or the action of a kinsman-redeemer.

Exodus

The Israel from slavery in Egypt under Torah.">Moses.">Exodus establishes a central biblical pattern of redemption.
God tells Israel:
"I will redeem you with an outstretched arm."
— Exodus 6:6

Kinsman-Redeemer

The Hebrew concept of the goel involves a family redeemer who protects or restores family interests.
The book of Ruth provides a prominent example through Boaz.

Prophets

God describes Himself as Israel's Redeemer.
See:
• Isaiah 41:14
• Isaiah 43:14
• Isaiah 44:6
• Isaiah 54:5

Messiah

The New Testament applies redemption language to Yeshua.
See:
• Mark 10:45
• Romans 3:24
• Galatians 3:13
• Ephesians 1:7
• Titus 2:14

Future Dimension

Romans 8:23 speaks of:
"the redemption of our bodies."
Redemption therefore includes the future resurrection of the earth, life, humanity, and ordered world into existence.">creation rather than as an inherently evil prison for the soul.">body.

Hebrew and Greek Word Study

Greek Word Study

ἀπολύτρωσις

apolýtrōsis · G0629

Original Word: ἀπολύτρωσις
Transliteration: apolýtrōsis
Strong’s: G0629
Part of Speech: G:N-F

Unified Lexical Definition

ἀπο-λύτρωσις, -εως, ἡ (ἀπολυτρόω, to release on payment of ransom, cf. λύτρον), [in LXX: Da (LXX) Dan.4:30 with * ;] release effected by payment of ransom, redemption, deliverance; metaphorically, Heb.11:35; of deliverance thr. Christ from evil and the consequences of sin: Luk.21:28, Rom.3:24 (Vau., in l) 8:23, 1Co.1:30, Eph.1:7, 14 4:30, Col.1:14, Heb.9:15. (On the extent to WH. the word retains the sense of ransom, see ICC, Rom.3:24, Westc., He., 297 ff.; see also ICC, Eph., 11; DCG, ii, 605; Cremer, 410; Deiss., LAE, 331; Lft., Notes, 271, 316; Tr., Syn., § 77.)† (AS) fr. ἀπό & λυτρόω) redemption, a deliverance procured by the payment of a ransom; meton. a redeemer, the author of redemption, 1 Co. 1.30; deliverance, simply, the idea of a ransom being excluded, Lu. 21.28. He. 11.35. N.T.

Lexical Sources

TBESGSTEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Lemma: ἀπολύτρωσις
Meaning: redemption

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A GREEK-ENGLISH LEXICOA Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament

fr. ἀπό & λυτρόω) redemption, a deliverance procured by the payment of a ransom; meton. a redeemer, the author of redemption, 1 Co. 1.30; deliverance, simply, the idea of a ransom being excluded, Lu. 21.28. He. 11.35. N.T.

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STRONG'SStrong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

(the act) ransom in full, i.e. (figuratively) riddance, or (specially) Christian salvation

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New Testament Usage

10 occurrences

First listed reference: Dan.4.30

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Biblical Usage

Concordance and Scripture Usage

10Exact Lemma38Conceptual Relationship

Gospels · 1

Luke 21:28Exact Lemma

Epistles · 9

Romans 3:24Exact Lemma Romans 8:23Exact Lemma 1 Corinthians 1:30Exact Lemma Ephesians 1:7Exact Lemma Ephesians 1:14Exact Lemma Ephesians 4:30Exact Lemma Colossians 1:14Exact Lemma Hebrews 9:15Exact Lemma Hebrews 11:35Exact Lemma

Reference Works

Bible Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Names

Unified Dictionary Summary

Redemption refers to liberation, release, recovery, or rescue, often involving the payment of a price or the action of a kinsman-redeemer.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

The purchase back of something that had been lost, by the payment of a ransom. The Greek word so rendered is apolutrosis, a word occurring nine times in Scripture, and always with the idea of a ransom or price paid, i.e., redemption by a lutron (see Matt. 20:28; Mark 10:45). There are instances in the LXX. Version of the Old Testament of the use of lutron in man's relation to man (Lev. 19:20; 25:51; Ex. 21:30; Num. 35:31, 32; Isa. 45:13; Prov. 6:35), and in the same sense of man's relation to God (Num. 3:49; 18:15). There are many passages in the New Testament which represent Christ's sufferings under the idea of a ransom or price, and the result thereby secured is a purchase or redemption (comp. Acts 20:28; 1 Cor. 6:19, 20; Gal. 3:13; 4:4, 5; Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:14; 1 Tim. 2:5, 6; Titus 2:14; Heb. 9:12; 1 Pet. 1:18, 19; Rev. 5:9). The idea running through all these texts, however various their reference, is that of payment made for our redemption. The debt against us is not viewed as simply cancelled, but is fully paid. Christ's blood or life, which he surrendered for them, is the "ransom" by which the deliverance of his people from the servitude of sin and from its penal consequences is secured. It is the plain doctrine of Scripture that "Christ saves us neither by the mere exercise of power, nor by his doctrine, nor by his example, nor by the moral influence which he exerted, nor by any subjective influence on his people, whether natural or mystical, but as a satisfaction to divine justice, as an expiation for sin, and as a ransom from the curse and authority of the law, thus reconciling us to God by making it consistent with his perfection to exercise mercy toward sinners" (Hodge's Systematic Theology).

Sources: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Salvation

Salvation refers broadly to God's act of rescue, deliverance, restoration, and preservation.

Exodus

The Exodus is God's deliverance of Israel from slavery in Egypt under Moses.

Messiah

Messiah means "anointed one." The Greek equivalent is Christos, from which the English title Christ derives.

Resurrection

Resurrection is God's act of raising the dead to bodily life.

Blood

Blood represents life, death, purification, sacrifice, covenant, and accountability in biblical theology.

Passover

Passover commemorates God's deliverance of Israel from Egypt.

Unleavened Bread

The Feast of Unleavened Bread is a seven-day biblical festival immediately associated with Passover.

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REDEMPTION

Nave’s Topical Bible references for REDEMPTION.

Arpad

the light of redemption

First-born, Redemption of

From the beginning the office of the priesthood in each family belonged to the eldest son. But when the extensive plan of sacrificial worship was introduced, requiring a company of men to be exclusively devoted to this ministry, the primitive office of the first-born was superseded by that of the Levites (Num. 3:11-13), and it was ordained that the first-born of man and of unclean animals should henceforth be redeemed (18:15). The laws concerning this redemption of the first-born of man are recorded in Ex. 13:12-15; 22:29; 34:20; Num. 3:45; 8:17; 18:16; Lev. 12:2, 4. The first-born male of every clean animal was to be given up to the priest for sacrifice (Deut. 12:6; Ex. 13:12; 34:20; Num. 18:15-17). But the first-born of unclean animals was either to be redeemed or sold and the price given to the priest (Lev. 27:11-13, 27). The first-born of an ass, if not redeemed, was to be put to death (Ex. 13:13; 34:20).

Geuel

God's redemption

Iphedeiah

redemption of the Lord

Padon

his redemption; ox-yoke

Pedahzur

strong or powerful savior; stone of redemption

Pedaiah

redemption of the Lord

Poetry

Has been well defined as "the measured language of emotion." Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man's relation to God. "Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon, redemption, repentance are the awful themes of this heaven-born poetry." In the Hebrew scriptures there are found three distinct kinds of poetry, (1) that of the Book of Job and the Song of Solomon, which is dramatic; (2) that of the Book of Psalms, which is lyrical; and (3) that of the Book of Ecclesiastes, which is didactic and sententious. Hebrew poetry has nothing akin to that of Western nations. It has neither metre nor rhyme. Its great peculiarity consists in the mutual correspondence of sentences or clauses, called parallelism, or "thought-rhyme." Various kinds of this parallelism have been pointed out: (1.) Synonymous or cognate parallelism, where the same idea is repeated in the same words (Ps. 93:3; 94:1; Prov. 6:2), or in different words (Ps. 22, 23, 28, 114, etc.); or where it is expressed in a positive form in the one clause and in a negative in the other (Ps. 40:12; Prov. 6:26); or where the same idea is expressed in three successive clauses (Ps. 40:15, 16); or in a double parallelism, the first and second clauses corresponding to the third and fourth (Isa. 9:1; 61:10, 11). (2.) Antithetic parallelism, where the idea of the second clause is the converse of that of the first (Ps. 20:8; 27:6, 7; 34:11; 37:9, 17, 21, 22). This is the common form of gnomic or proverbial poetry. (See Prov. 10-15.) (3.) Synthetic or constructive or compound parallelism, where each clause or sentence contains some accessory idea enforcing the main idea (Ps. 19:7-10; 85:12; Job 3:3-9; Isa. 1:5-9). (4.) Introverted parallelism, in which of four clauses the first answers to the fourth and the second to the third (Ps. 135:15-18; Prov. 23:15, 16), or where the second line reverses the order of words in the first (Ps. 86:2). Hebrew poetry sometimes assumes other forms than these. (1.) An alphabetical arrangement is sometimes adopted for the purpose of connecting clauses or sentences. Thus in the following the initial words of the respective verses begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular succession: Prov. 31:10-31; Lam. 1, 2, 3, 4; Ps. 25, 34, 37, 145. Ps. 119 has a letter of the alphabet in regular order beginning every eighth verse. (2.) The repetition of the same verse or of some emphatic expression at intervals (Ps. 42, 107, where the refrain is in verses, 8, 15, 21, 31). (Comp. also Isa. 9:8-10:4; Amos 1:3, 6, 9, 11, 13; 2:1, 4, 6.) (3.) Gradation, in which the thought of one verse is resumed in another (Ps. 121). Several odes of great poetical beauty are found in the historical books of the Old Testament, such as the song of Moses (Ex. 15), the song of Deborah (Judg. 5), of Hannah (1 Sam. 2), of Hezekiah (Isa. 38:9-20), of Habakkuk (Hab. 3), and David's "song of the bow" (2 Sam. 1:19-27).

Ransom

The price or payment made for our redemption, as when it is said that the Son of man "gave his life a ransom for many" (Matt. 20:28; comp. Acts 20:28; Rom. 3:23, 24; 1 Cor. 6:19, 20; Gal. 3:13; 4:4, 5: Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:14; 1 Tim. 2:6; Titus 2:14; 1 Pet. 1:18, 19. In all these passages the same idea is expressed). This word is derived from the Fr. rancon; Lat. redemptio. The debt is represented not as cancelled but as fully paid. The slave or captive is not liberated by a mere gratuitous favour, but a ransom price has been paid, in consideration of which he is set free. The original owner receives back his alienated and lost possession because he has bought it back "with a price." This price or ransom (Gr. lutron) is always said to be Christ, his blood, his death. He secures our redemption by the payment of a ransom. (See [521]REDEMPTION.)

Redeemer

Heb. goel; i.e., one charged with the duty of restoring the rights of another and avenging his wrongs (Lev. 25:48, 49; Num. 5:8; Ruth 4:1; Job 19:25; Ps. 19:14; 78:35, etc.). This title is peculiarly applied to Christ. He redeems us from all evil by the payment of a ransom (q.v.). (See [524]REDEMPTION.)

Redemption

Salvation

This word is used of the deliverance of the Israelites from the Egyptians (Ex. 14:13), and of deliverance generally from evil or danger. In the New Testament it is specially used with reference to the great deliverance from the guilt and the pollution of sin wrought out by Jesus Christ, "the great salvation" (Heb. 2:3). (See [546]REDEMPTION; [547]REGENERATION.)

Saviour

One who saves from any form or degree of evil. In its highest sense the word indicates the relation sustained by our Lord to his redeemed ones, he is their Saviour. The great message of the gospel is about salvation and the Saviour. It is the "gospel of salvation." Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ secures to the sinner a personal interest in the work of redemption. Salvation is redemption made effectual to the individual by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Definition

Exodus

Kinsman-Redeemer

Prophets

Messiah

Future Dimension

Hebrew and Greek Word Study

Unified Lexical Definition

Lexical Sources

New Testament Usage

Unified Dictionary Summary

Salvation

Exodus

Messiah

Resurrection

Blood

Passover

Unleavened Bread

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REDEMPTION

Arpad

First-born, Redemption of

Geuel

Iphedeiah

Padon

Pedahzur

Pedaiah

Poetry

Ransom

Redeemer

Redemption

Salvation

Saviour

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