Verb
To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.
To regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin.
To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like.
Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error.
Source: Webster's dictionaryEvery age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. Adlai Stevenson II
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. Bertrand Russell
We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land! Yasser Arafat
The sign invites you in, but your money redeem you out. Romanian Proverb
If you take your tongue to the pawnshop, you can't redeem it later. Ghana Proverb
To redeem and uphold in our need. Icelandic Proverb