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# redeem

«redeem» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **buy back, rescue** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

buy back, rescue

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To buy something back, pay a debt, or set someone free from a bond or curse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/redeem/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it means to get something back by paying for it; the old sense of rescuing or setting free from a bond (as in the Torah and the fairy tale) is still used.

### examples

- All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem. (Torah EXO.34.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/redeem/#x1)
- "Yes, one ought to be able to redeem you so easily, you pure, pious woman," he said. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/redeem/#x2)
- after that he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his brethren may redeem him; (Torah LEV.25.48, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/redeem/#x3)

### primary record

redeem

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 26 (Torah 25, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.9 (Torah alone 58.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [Thou in Thy love hast led the people that Thou hast redeemed; Thou hast guided them in Thy strength to Thy holy habitation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.429/)
- [All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1028/)
- [And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxen rich and find sufficient means to redeem it;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.759/)
- [after that he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his brethren may redeem him;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.781/)
- [But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part thereof unto thy valuation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.847/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «redeem» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/redeem/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.