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    Ransom

    RAN-sum

    Meaning

    Redemption; Release payment

    English origin · Boy · First in Mark

    What it points to

    Ransom is the price of freedom — Christ's life given for many, the costliest love the universe has ever known.

    Verses · King James Version

    “For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.”

    Mark 10:45

    “Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.”

    1 Timothy 2:6

    Most used in the 1880s (US records)

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