Redemption
גְּאֻלָּהStrong’s H1353geullah (ge-ul-lah)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Geullah is the Hebrew word usually translated “right of redemption its”, “right of redemption” and “redemption his”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.”
Meaning
- Kindred, redemption, right of redemption, price of redemptionkin, kindred · redemption · right of redemption · price of redemption, redemption price
How it's translated
- right of redemption its 2
- a right of redemption 2
- redemption his 2
- the redemption 2
- right of redemption 1
- redemption its 1
- a right of redemption of 1
- right of redemption my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 8
- Ruth 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Ezekiel 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 25:26And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
- Leviticus 25:29And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
- Leviticus 25:31But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
- Leviticus 25:32Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
- Leviticus 25:48After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
- Leviticus 25:51If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
Hebrew dictionary
גְּאֻלָּה geullah · redemption
1) kindred, redemption, right of redemption, price of redemption 1a) kin, kindred 1b) redemption 1c) right of redemption 1d) price of redemption, redemption price
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “redemption” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REDEMP'TION, noun
[Latin redemptio. See Redeem.]
- 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; as the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo.
- Deliverance from bondage, distress, or from liability to any evil or forfeiture, either by money, labor or other means.
- Repurchase, as of lands alienated. Leviticus 25:24Jeremiah 32:7
- The liberation of an estate from a mortgage; or the purchase of the right to re-enter upon it by paying the principal sum for which it was mortgaged with interest and cost; also, the right of redeeming and re-entering.
All definitions
- Repurchase of notes, bills or other evidence of debt by paying their value in specie to their holders.
- In theology, the purchase of God's favor by the death and sufferings of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law by the atonement of Christ.“In whom we have redemption through his blood” Ephesians 1:7
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.