- Original: ἐξαγοράζω
- Transliteration: Exagorazo
- Phonetic: ex-ag-or-ad'-zo
- Definition:
1. to redeem
a. by payment of a price to recover from the power of another, to ransom, buy off
b. metaph. of christ freeing the elect from the dominion of the Mosaic Law at the price of his vicarious death
2. to buy up, to buy up for one's self, for one's use
a. to make wise and sacred use of every opportunity for doing good, so that zeal and well doing are as it were the purchase money by which we make the time our own
- Origin: from
G1537 and
G59
- TDNT entry: 03:04,2
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: From
G1537 and
G59 ; to buy up that is ransom; figuratively to rescue from loss (improve opportunity): - redeem.
Total KJV Occurrences: 4
• redeem, 1
Galatians 4:5
• redeemed, 1
Galatians 3:13
• redeeming, 2
Eph 5:16;
Colossians 4:5