λύτρωσις
lýtrōsis · G3085 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to set free, to liberate, to deliver, liberation, deliverance
To release or set free, with the implied analogy to the process of freeing a slave
ExamplesLuke 1:68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people,
Luke 2:38 And at that very moment she came up and began giving thanks to God, and continued to speak about Him to all those who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem.
Hebrews 9:12 and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all time, having obtained eternal redemption.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἹερουσαλήμJerusalem 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- αἰώνιοςeternal 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- εὑρίσκωto find, to discover 1
- ποιέωto do, to make 1
- προσδέχομαιto wait for, to welcome 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- פְּדוּת pᵉdûwth · H6304 · redemption, salvation, deliverance
- Greek λύτρωσις and Hebrew פְּדוּת both denote the act of ransoming/redeeming (the process or state of liberation through payment), forming a direct translation equivalent across the LXX corpus where Greek renders the Hebrew redemption terminology.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To set free, to liberate, to deliver, liberation, deliverance37.128
- This lexeme is the nominal counterpart describing the state or act of being set free or delivered. Luke 1:68 opens Zacharias's prophecy in praise of God, “for He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people.”
Word family 23 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon λυτρώσεως, ἡ (λυτρόω), a ransoming, redemption: properly, αἰχμαολωτων, Plutarch, Aratus,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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