| Strong#: | 1805 // exagorazw exagorazo |
| Orig: | v // from \\1537\\ and \\59\\ |
| NASB: | ==>making the most(2), redeem(1), redeemed(1). |
| AV=4 | ==>redeem 4 |
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| Definition: | 1) to redeem
1a) by payment of a price to recover from the power of another,
to ransom, buy off
1b) metaph. 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
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| NASB: | to buy up, i.e. ransom, fig. to rescue from loss: |
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