Redemption
פְּדוּתStrong’s H6304pedut (pe-dut)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pedut is the Hebrew word usually translated “redemption” and “ransom”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.”
Meaning
- Ransom
How it's translated
- redemption 2
- a ransom 1
- for ransom 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Exodus 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 111:9He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.
- Psalms 130:7Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
- Isaiah 50:2Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
Hebrew dictionary
פְּדוּת pedut · redemption
ransom
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.