λύτρον
ransom
‘ransom’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3083 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“ransom” is the headline sense of the Greek noun λυτρον (lýtron). It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. More than half of its appearances fall in Matthew. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 20:28. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3083 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Ransom 2×
- American Standard Version: Ransom 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ransom 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ransom 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3083 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3083 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3083 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3083 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- the price for redeeming, ransom
- to liberate many from misery and the penalty of their sins
Word origin
Derived from λυω (lýō) (G3089) — to loose.
From G3089 ; something to loosen with that is a redemption price (figuratively atonement ): - ransom.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3083, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word λυτρον appears 20 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 19 verses in 5 books.
- 20
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 19
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 21:30 λύτρον
- Leviticus 19:20 λύτρον
- Numbers 3:12 λύτρον
- Proverbs 6:35 λύτρον
- Isaiah 45:13 λύτρον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3083) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 21:30 λύτρον If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.
- Exodus 30:12 λύτρον "When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.
- Leviticus 19:20 λύτρον "'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
- Leviticus 25:24 λύτρον In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
- Leviticus 25:26 λύτρον If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;
- Leviticus 25:51 λύτρον If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
- Leviticus 25:52 λύτρον If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.
- Leviticus 27:31 λύτρον If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it.
- Numbers 3:12 λύτρον "Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:
- Numbers 3:46 λύτρον For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites,
- Numbers 3:48 λύτρον and you shall give the money, with which the remainder of them is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons."
- Numbers 3:49 λύτρον Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;
- Numbers 3:51 λύτρον and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 18:15 λύτρον Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals shall you redeem.
- Numbers 35:31 λύτρον Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:32 λύτρον You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
- Proverbs 6:35 λύτρον He won't regard any ransom, Neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
- Proverbs 13:8 λύτρον The ransom of a man's life is his riches, But the poor hear no threats.
- Isaiah 45:13 λύτρον I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, says Yahweh of Hosts.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3083) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
