– Word used in the OT to primarily designate the end of slavery in Egypt, from where God freed the chosen people and led them to the Promised Land:
Ex 5,1-2 : Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: “Let my people go, that they may hold a feast for me in the desert”.
Deut 7,7-8 : Therefore his mighty hand brought you out of the house of bondage, and delivered you from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Ps 76:20-21 : You made a path through the sea, a path through many waters.
Ps 77,12-13.51-52 : While still in the land of Egypt, he did great wonders […]. The sea was divided to give them passage.
Ps 104,37-45 : And God took away the Hebrews laden with gold and silver; there was no sick person in the tribes.
Wis 14,3 : But it is you, Father, who governs it by your Providence, because you opened the way, even in the sea.
Is 43:16 : This is what the Lord says, who made a way through the sea, a path through the waves.
Is 51:10 : You who made a way at the bottom of the sea for the redeemed to pass through?
Is 63,11-12 : Where is he who took the shepherd of his flock from heaven? […] the one who put his Holy Spirit in him?
Mic 6:4 : I brought you out of Egypt, I freed you from slavery, and I sent Moses, Aaron and Mary before you.
– By extension, the return of the exiles in Babylon, as read in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah and also in Isaiah:
Is 43:14 : For your sake I send to Babylon, to make the bars of the prisons fall.
Jer 16,14-15 : This is why the days will come […] when people will no longer say: Long live God, who brought the Israelites out of Egypt!
Jr 23,7-8 : Long live God, who brought the children of Israel out of Egypt.
Jer 25,11 : This land will become anguish […] for seventy years the servitude to the king of Babylon will last.
Jer 29:10 : When seventy years have passed for Babylon, I will visit you.
Jer 50:34 : He will defend […] his cause, so that calm returns to the country, and makes the inhabitants of Babylon tremble.
Zech 1,12-13 : The angel of the Lord said: “Lord of hosts! How long will you remain insensitive to the fate of Jerusalem?”
– Also the alliance of Judas Maccabeus with Rome, so that the Jewish people would be freed from the yoke of the Greeks:
1Mc 8,18 : Asking them to free them from the yoke that the Greeks […] made heavy on Israel, reducing them to slavery.
– In the psalms, little by little it came to designate relief from other evils, such as anguish and iniquity:
Ps 24:22 : O God, deliver Israel from all her troubles.
Ps 129 :8 : And he himself will redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
– Until in the NT it was understood in the spiritual sense:
Jn 8:34-35 : Jesus answered: “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who surrenders to sin is its slave”.
Rom 6,17.20-21 : After having been slaves to sin, you have obeyed the rule of doctrine from your heart.
1Cor 6,20 : Because you were bought with a great price. Therefore glorify God in your body.
1Cor 7,23 : You were bought with a price, do not become slaves of men.
Gal 3:13 : Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, becoming a curse for us.
Gal 4,5 : In order to redeem those who were under the Law, so that we might receive their adoption.
Eph 1 :7: In that Son, through his blood, we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.
Col 1:13 : He rescued us from the power of darkness and brought us into the Kingdom of his beloved Son.
Heb 9:15 : By his death he atoned for the sins committed during the first testament.
– Christ, by his resurrection, finally freed us from death:
Rm 6,21-22 : What fruits did you bear then? Fruits of which you are now ashamed. Their end is death.
Rom 8 :2 : The Law of the Spirit of Life has set me free, in Jesus Christ, from the Law of sin and death.
1Cor 15,54-55 : Death was swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting.
