To purchase back; to regain possession of by
payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged
property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.
To ransom, liberate, or rescue from
captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or
to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to
recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the
like.
Hence, to rescue and
deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated
law.
To make good by performing fully; to
fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
To pay the penalty of; to make amends for;
to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate;
as, to redeem an error.
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