To rescue or set someone free by paying a price.
Key References
Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,
But now, this is what the LORD says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!
In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
All Scripture References (106)
Exodus (6)
Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling.
You must redeem every firstborn donkey with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. And every firstborn of your sons you must redeem.
And when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. This is why I sacrifice to the LORD the firstborn male of every womb, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.’
You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before Me empty-handed.
If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who had designated her for himself, he must allow her to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has broken faith with her.
Leviticus (23)
If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.
If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the Jubilee.
So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.
he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his brothers may redeem him:
either his uncle or cousin or any close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.
Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee.
If, however, the owner decides to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value.
But if he who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will belong to him.
And if the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it shall belong to him.
If, however, he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold it to another man, it may no longer be redeemed.
But if it is among the unclean animals, then he may redeem it according to your valuation and add a fifth of its value. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.
If a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.
He must not inspect whether it is good or bad, and he shall not make any substitution. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute shall become holy; they cannot be redeemed.’”
If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
No person set apart for destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.
Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,
If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.
But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the cities they possess.
If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.
If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years.
Numbers (3)
The firstborn of every womb, whether man or beast, that is offered to the LORD belongs to you. But you must surely redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.
You are to pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.
But you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to splatter their blood on the altar and burn their fat as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Deuteronomy (6)
But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,
Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.
Accept this atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.” And the bloodshed will be atoned for.
Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
Ruth (4)
Stay here tonight, and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, good. Let him redeem you. But if he does not want to redeem you, as surely as the LORD lives, I will. Now lie here until morning.”
I thought I should inform you that you may buy it back in the presence of those seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you want to redeem it, do so. But if you will not redeem it, tell me so I may know, because there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.” “I will redeem it,” he replied.
The kinsman-redeemer replied, “I cannot redeem it myself, or I would jeopardize my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption, because I cannot redeem it.”
Now in former times in Israel, concerning the redemption or exchange of property, to make any matter legally binding a man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party, and this was a confirmation in Israel.
1 Samuel (1)
But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die—he who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for with God’s help he has accomplished this today.” So the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.
2 Samuel (2)
But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,
And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.
1 Kings (1)
And the king swore an oath, saying, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,
1 Chronicles (1)
And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.
Nehemiah (1)
They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.
Job (4)
May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
deliver me from the hand of the enemy; redeem me from the grasp of the ruthless’?
He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’
Psalms (20)
You know my reproach, my shame and disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.
He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.
Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance—Mount Zion, where You dwell.
The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.
who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,
He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy
Defend my cause and redeem me; revive me according to Your word.
For the redemption of his soul is costly, and never can payment suffice,
Redeem Israel, O God, from all its distress.
But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.
I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.
Do not be afraid when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases.
God will hear and humiliate them—the One enthroned for the ages—Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.
When I sing praise to You my lips will shout for joy, along with my soul, which You have redeemed.
They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,
Redeem me from the oppression of man, that I may keep Your precepts.
And He will redeem Israel from all iniquity.
Isaiah (15)
No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.
But now, this is what the LORD says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.
Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”
Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”
Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.
And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.
In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.
Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed and no more will his face grow pale.
So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.
Jeremiah (4)
For the LORD has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand that had overpowered him.
I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”
Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’
Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
Lamentations (1)
You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.
Ezekiel (1)
“Son of man, your brothers—your relatives, your fellow exiles, and the whole house of Israel—are those of whom the people of Jerusalem have said, ‘They are far away from the LORD; this land has been given to us as a possession.’
Hosea (2)
I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.
Micah (2)
Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!
For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.
Zechariah (1)
I will whistle for them to gather, for I have redeemed them; and they will be as numerous as they once were.
1 Corinthians (2)
you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.
Galatians (2)
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.
2 Peter (1)
Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.
Revelation (3)
And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.