Ransom
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Ransom in the Bible Dictionary
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Of a man’s life
Ex 21:30; 30:12; Job 36:18; Ps 49:7, 8; Prov 6:35; 13:8; Hos 13:14
30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
Exodus 21:3012 When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
Exodus 30:1218 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
Job 36:187 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
Psalms 49:78 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
Psalms 49:835 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
Proverbs 6:358 The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
Proverbs 13:814 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Hosea 13:14 -
Figurative
Job 33:24; Isa 35:10; 51:10; Matt 20:28; 1 Tim 2:6
24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
Job 33:2410 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isaiah 35:1010 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
Isaiah 51:1028 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Matthew 20:286 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
1 Timothy 2:6 - See Jesus
- See Saviour
- See Redemption
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
