by payment of a price to recover from the power of another, to ransom, buy off
metaph. of Christ freeing the elect from the dominion of the Mosaic Law at the price of his vicarious death
to buy up, to buy up for one's self, for one's use
to make wise and sacred use of every opportunity for doing good, so that zeal and well doing are as it were the purchase money by which we make the time our own
Translated Words
KJV (4) - redeem, 4;
NAS (4) - making the most, 2; redeem, 1; redeemed, 1;
Bibliography Information
Thayer and Smith. "Greek Lexicon entry for Exagorazo". "The New Testament Greek Lexicon". <http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=1805>.
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