noun · feminine
apolutrōsias
Strong’sG629
redemption, deliverance
stem apolutrōsi-10 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
Redemption, deliverance — the release of someone from captivity or bondage by the payment of a ransom 1234. In the Greek Old Testament, the word is used of a king's own recovery from his condition 3.
In the New Testament the word carries this same sense of release, but applied to deliverance from evil and the consequences of sin brought about through Christ 13; it can also be used more broadly for a full deliverance or riddance, in one place applied to the final deliverance of the body, and is sometimes rendered simply as Christian salvation 12.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
† ἀπο-λύτρωσις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἀπολυτρόω, to release on payment of ransom, cf. λύτρον), [in LXX: Da (LXX) 4:30c*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G629 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
ransoming, αἰχμαλώτωνRefs 1st c.AD+
II redemption by payment of ransom, deliverance, NT; of Nebuchadnezzar's recovery, LXX; in NT, redemption, NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | apolutrōsias2×ἀπολύτρωσις | apolutrōsiais |
| object accusative | apolutrōsian6×ἀπολύτρωσιν | apolutrōsiain |
| direct address vocative | apolutrōsiar | apolutrōsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | apolutrōsiau2×ἀπολυτρώσεως | apolutrōsiaiu |
| to, for dative | apolutrōsia | apolutrōsiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
apolutrōsia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
10 occurrences, every one of them listed
apolutrōsias“redemption”subjectnominative singular2×
Luke 21:28… tain kefalain vu, dioti engizatō tas apolutrōsias vu.… lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
1 Corinthians 1:30… theou, dikaiosunas tē kai hagiasmos kai apolutrōsias,… from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
apolutrōsian“redemption”objectaccusative singular6×
Romans 8:23… en heautoi stenazanō, huiothesian apekdechorōntois tan apolutrōsian teu sōmeu nu.… for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
Ephesians 1:7en ho echanō tan apolutrōsian dia teu haimeu autou, tan afesian …In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of …
Ephesians 1:14… atō arrabōnos tau klēronomiau nu, eis apolutrōsian tau peripoiēsiau, eis epainon tau doxau …… pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession …
Colossians 1:14en ho echanō tan apolutrōsian, tan afesian taiu hamartaiu;in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Hebrews 9:15“redemption”… mesitos atō, hopōs thanatou generantou eis apolutrōsian taiu epi ta prōta diathēka parabasiaiu …Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
Hebrews 11:35… allosois de tumpanizila, ouk prosdecherantois tan apolutrōsian, hina kreittonau anastasiau tuchaleia;… Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a …
apolutrōsiau“redemption”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Romans 3:24… dōreōs ta autou charita dia tau apolutrōsiau tau en Christo Iēso;… freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 4:30… theou, en he sfragiziva eis hēmeran apolutrōsiau.… were sealed for the day of redemption.