A redemption-price
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G487 names a ransom or redemption price, used in 1 Timothy 2:6 for Christ giving Himself for all. Readers often come to this word asking about ransom for all, Christ gave Himself, atonement, redemption price, and substitution.
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G487 names a ransom or redemption price, used in 1 Timothy 2:6 for Christ giving Himself for all. Readers often come to this word asking about ransom for all, Christ gave Himself, atonement, redemption price, and substitution.
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include [as] a ransom (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at 1 Timothy 2:6. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Timothy (1).
G487 names a ransom or redemption price, used in 1 Timothy 2:6 for Christ giving Himself for all. Readers often come to this word asking about ransom for all, Christ gave Himself, atonement, redemption price, and substitution. In the Pastoral Epistles, the word must be read inside the sentence, the paragraph, and the local charge to Timothy or Titus before it becomes a broader teaching category.
This companion keeps the search question useful while refusing to let a search term control the text. It helps shepherds, teachers, leaders, churches, groups, families, and disciples ask what the passage is actually doing, how the word serves the book argument, and how the gospel governs the application. It also guards against making ransom language vague, transactional in a crude way, or detached from the person and self-giving of Christ.
The aim is not to create a shortcut around Scripture but to make the word a doorway back into Scripture with clearer questions and better boundaries.
Ransom; redemption price matters for readers because it opens the cost, sufficiency, and personal center of Christ's saving work.
Who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.
Christ Jesus gave Himself as the ransom for all, the testimony given at the right time.
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How English Renders ItA compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
Greek word. Ransom paid as substitute exchange, emphasizing reciprocal replacement of one for another.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
a ransom
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
ἀντίλυτρον is built from these roots:
The term highlights substitution and cost, pointing to the sacrificial nature of Christ’s death. 1 Timothy 2:1-7
Teach G487 by starting with the local passage and the burden that caused the word to matter there. The entry opens the cost, sufficiency, and personal center of Christ's saving work. A faithful teacher should define the word plainly, show how the immediate context uses it, and then move carefully to related witnesses without pretending that one word proves every doctrine attached to the subject.
This matters for end users who may search for ransom for all, Christ gave Himself, atonement, redemption price, and substitution but need more than a dictionary answer. The word should bring them back to Christ, the gospel, the household of God, and the obedience Scripture calls for. It corrects atonement language that speaks of a benefit without the self-giving Savior.
Keep the tone clear and sober: enough definition to orient the reader, enough canonical connection to deepen trust, and enough restraint to avoid making the word say more than the passage says.
1Tim.2.6
The noun is rare in the New Testament. Its meaning should be handled through its immediate context and related redemption language rather than inflated beyond the verse.
Use the Old Testament and wider canonical background only where the cited passages or the local lexicon artifact warrant it. The Pastoral Epistles remain the controlling entry point for this batch.
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