redeem

«redeem» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: buy back, rescue — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

buy back, rescue

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To buy something back, pay a debt, or set someone free from a bond or curse. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it means to get something back by paying for it; the old sense of rescuing or setting free from a bond (as in the Torah and the fairy tale) is still used.

examples

• All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem. (Torah EXO.34.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• "Yes, one ought to be able to redeem you so easily, you pure, pious woman," he said. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• after that he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his brethren may redeem him; (Torah LEV.25.48, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

redeem

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 26 (Torah 25, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.9 (Torah alone 58.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• Thou in Thy love hast led the people that Thou hast redeemed; Thou hast guided them in Thy strength to Thy holy habitation.
• All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem.
• And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxen rich and find sufficient means to redeem it;
• after that he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his brethren may redeem him;
• But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part thereof unto thy valuation.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «redeem» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.