Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who redeems.
- noun Christianity Jesus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who redeems, ransoms, or atones for another. See
redemption . - noun Specifically The Saviour of the world, Jesus Christ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who redeems.
- noun Specifically, the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
redeems ; who providesredemption
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who redeems or buys back (promissory notes or merchandise or commercial paper etc.)
- noun a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)
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Examples
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The idea in "redeemer" with Job is Vindicator (Job 16: 19; Nu 35: 27), redressing his wrongs; also including at least with us, and probably with him, the idea of the predicted Bruiser of the serpent's head.
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She did not ask to be the redeemer, is not even being paid to be the redeemer.
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Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his creator, and plead the merits of his redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer.
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When we get to the part where the redeemer is born, that is truly “Good News.”
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The redeemer is the eternal Word and wisdom, the Logos.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: 11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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This is EFM part II, and like Job said, “I believe my redeemer cometh” a redeemer was the person who would set things right.
What is worth fighting for? Elizabeth McClung 2008
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This is EFM part II, and like Job said, “I believe my redeemer cometh” a redeemer was the person who would set things right.
Archive 2008-12-01 Elizabeth McClung 2008
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To the office of a redeemer, that is, of one that payeth the ransom of sin, which ransom is death, it appertaineth that he was sacrificed, and thereby bore upon his own head and carried away from us our iniquities, in such sort as God had required.
Leviathan 2007
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And in v. 6 that teaching of theirs is opposed, according to which the man who suffered on the cross was not really the redeemer, that is to say, the Christ, who had come down from heaven.
The Johannine Writings 1851-1935 1908
patty4jc commented on the word redeemer
For I know my redeemer lives, and He will stand at last on the earth
October 25, 2007