Definition:
- (v. t.) To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
- (v. t.) To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.
- (v. t.) To regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin.
- (v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like.
- (v. t.) Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
- (v. t.) To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
- (v. t.) To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error.
Compare redeem with other words:
redeem vs. surrender
receive vs. redeem
claim vs. redeem
redeem vs. saved
amortization vs. redeem
redeem vs. return
recreate vs. redeem
redeem vs. salvation
redeem vs. reimburse
mobile vs. redeem
redeem vs. redemptive
irreclaimable vs. redeem
deem vs. redeem
redeem vs. tacking
hercules vs. redeem
compensate vs. redeem
redeem vs. redemptory
redeem vs. redemptorist
redeem vs. redemptioner
redeem vs. unredeemed
redeem vs. redeemer
abandon vs. redeem
redeem vs. redeemable
redeem vs. repurchase
honour vs. redeem
reclaim vs. redeem
redeem vs. reputation
redeem vs. restore
redeem vs. reform
redeem vs. repair
consequence vs. redeem
redeem vs. sin
redeem vs. state
cash vs. redeem
convert vs. redeem
atone vs. redeem
expiate vs. redeem
blame vs. redeem
debt vs. redeem
clear vs. redeem
ransom vs. redeem
liberate vs. redeem
ownership vs. redeem
paying vs. redeem
recover vs. redeem
redeem vs. rescue
redeem vs. save