Redemption
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G629 names redemption or release, often with the idea of liberation secured at cost. The immediate passage determines the bondage, means, and time frame rather than a reconstructed slave-market transaction.
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G629 names redemption or release, often with the idea of liberation secured at cost. The immediate passage determines the bondage, means, and time frame rather than a reconstructed slave-market transaction.
The BSB source-word alignment has 10 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include redemption (6), [the] redemption (1), of redemption (1), redeem [them] (1), release (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 21:28. Its strongest book concentrations include Ephesians (3), Hebrews (2), Romans (2), 1 Corinthians (1).
This entry includes 1 verse guide that explain exact original-language forms in context.
G629 names redemption or release, often with the idea of liberation secured at cost. The immediate passage determines the bondage, means, and time frame rather than a reconstructed slave-market transaction. Romans 3:24 joins redemption in Christ Jesus to justification freely given by grace. Ephesians 1:7 joins redemption through Christ's blood to forgiveness, while Romans 8:23 and Ephesians 4:30 look toward bodily redemption and a future day.
Luke 21:28 uses redemption as approaching deliverance, Hebrews 9:15 connects it with Christ's death and transgressions under the first covenant, and Hebrews 11:35 describes people refusing release from torture. The noun therefore has saving and ordinary release settings; it does not by itself identify a ransom recipient or define one complete theory of atonement.
The selected artifact reflects about ten New Testament uses. The noun appears in statements about redemption in Christ, forgiveness, the Spirit's guarantee, future bodily redemption, approaching deliverance, covenant transgressions, and release refused under torture.
And are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Paul says people are justified freely by God's grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus. The following verse names Christ's blood, faith, and God's demonstration of righteousness.
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
Redemption through Christ's blood and forgiveness of trespasses stand together according to the riches of God's grace. The clause joins them closely without making the noun alone explain their complete relationship.
Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
Romans places G629 inside creation's groaning and the Spirit-bearing church's hope for bodily liberation. This occurrence gives the noun a future horizon.
It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
Paul names Christ as wisdom from God and then names righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. The list should be preserved rather than collapsed into interchangeable synonyms.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
The command not to grieve the Holy Spirit is grounded in believers having been sealed for the day of redemption. Ethical exhortation and future hope remain joined.
Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
Christ's mediatorship, death, redemption from transgressions under the first covenant, the called, and the promised inheritance belong to one covenant argument.
Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.
Here G629 refers to release from torture that faithful sufferers refuse in hope of a better resurrection. The verse demonstrates a release sense without stating that payment was involved.
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Greek word. Deliverance from sin and evil through Christ's ransom payment, not merely release or forgiveness alone.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
10 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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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 3 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
Showing 5 selected witnesses from 10 lexical occurrence verses.
ἀπολύτρωσις is built from these roots:
It highlights the costly deliverance accomplished by Christ.Colossians 1:9–14
Refers to the future redemption of the body promised to believers.Luke 21:25–28
Refers to final deliverance secured by Christ.Romans 3:21-26
Highlights the substitutionary and liberating nature of Christ’s saving work.Romans 8:18-27
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
G629 gathers several dimensions of redemption without reducing them to one imagined transaction. Romans 3 locates the noun in Christ Jesus as Paul explains a gracious verdict; the next verse then introduces faith, Christ's blood, and God's just action. Ephesians 1 joins redemption through Christ's blood with forgiveness and later speaks of the Spirit as a guarantee until redemption; Ephesians 4 names a future day of redemption within an ethical command.
Romans 8 identifies the awaited redemption as bodily. Hebrews 9 places the noun inside the new-covenant argument, while Hebrews 11 uses it for release from torture. Teachers can therefore speak of liberation secured in Christ and future completion, but should not use the noun alone to identify a recipient of payment, collapse every benefit into a synonym, or reconstruct details the passages do not state.
Rom.3.24
The noun belongs to the redemption and release word family. Its components may support the broad idea of release, but they do not prove completeness, permanence, a slave-market setting, or a particular recipient of payment in every verse. Direct objects, modifying phrases, and the surrounding argument establish those claims.
The Exodus, family redemption laws, Ruth, and Isaiah's Redeemer language provide major canonical patterns of deliverance and restoration. They illuminate New Testament redemption theology without making each Hebrew term a direct lexical equivalent of G629 or making one background control every occurrence.