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Strong's #1805: exagorazo (pronounced ex-ag-or-ad'-zo)

from 1537 and 59; to buy up, i.e. ransom; figuratively, to rescue from loss (improve opportunity):--redeem.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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exagorazō

1) to redeem

1a) by payment of a price to recover from the power of another, to ransom, buy off

1b) metaphorically of Christ freeing the elect from the dominion of the Mosaic Law at the price of his vicarious death

2) to buy up, to buy up for one' s self, for one' s use

2a) 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

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G1537 and G59

Citing in TDNT: 1:124, 19




Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Galatians 3:13: "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,"
Galatians 4:5: "To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the"
Ephesians 5:16: " Redeeming the time, because the days are evil."
Colossians 4:5: "wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time."









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