Redemption
פִּדְיוֹםStrong’s H6306pidyom (pid-yom)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pidyom is the Hebrew word usually translated “ransom of” and “ransom”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.”
Meaning
- Ransom, redemption
How it's translated
- ransom of 2
- the ransom 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Numbers 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
פִּדְיוֹם pidyom · redemption
ransom, redemption Another spelling of pid.yon (פִּדְיוֹן "redemption" H6306B)
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.