Gloss
to redeem, free a slave by paying a ransom; from the base meaning of slave redemption in the marketplace comes the figure of sinners redeemed by God from slavery to sin and death
Forms of the word
Dictionary
λυτρόω
Greek transliteration
lytroō
Simplified transliteration
lytroo
Principal Parts
-, ἐλύτρωσα, -, -, ἐλυτρώθην
Numbers
Strong's number
3084
GK Number
3390
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
3
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
v-1d(3)
Definition
Greek-English Concordance for λυτρόω
| Luke 24:21 | But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem (lytrousthai | λυτροῦσθαι | pres mid inf ) Israel. Indeed, besides all this, but it is now the third day since these things happened. |
| Titus 2:14 | who gave himself for us so that he might redeem (lytrōsētai | λυτρώσηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) us from all lawlessness and cleanse for himself a special people, a zealot for good works. |
| 1 Peter 1:18 | since you know that you (elytrōthēte | ἐλυτρώθητε | aor pass ind 2 pl) were (elytrōthēte | ἐλυτρώθητε | aor pass ind 2 pl) ransomed (elytrōthēte | ἐλυτρώθητε | aor pass ind 2 pl) from the empty way of life handed down from your ancestors, not by perishable things such as silver or gold, |
