How to say "redeem" in Japanese

• 買い戻すかいもどすCommon
  godan verb, transitive verbFor the concrete sense of redeeming something by buying it back, such as an item left at a pawnshop. The nuance is a straightforward transaction: you pay and get the thing back.
  それを買い戻かいもどすのに５ポンドかかった。↗

  It cost him five pounds to buy it back.
• 償うつぐなうCommon
  godan verb, transitive verbUsed when redeem means making up for a fault or wrongdoing, as in redeeming oneself after a serious mistake. The nuance is atonement: compensating for what one has done wrong.
  彼かれはどうやって損失そんしつを償つぐなうのだろうか。↗

  How will he make good the loss?
• 救うすくうJLPT N3approx.Common
  godan verb, transitive verbCovers the religious sense of redeem: saving someone from sin, as in talk of Christ redeeming humanity. The nuance is spiritual deliverance and salvation rather than payment or compensation.
  神かみだけがあなたを救すくえる。↗

  Nothing but God can save you.

Choose 「買い戻す」 when redeem means literally buying something back, 「償う」 when it means making up for a fault or wrongdoing, and 「救う」 when it is the religious sense of saving someone from sin.

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• 買い戻すかいもどすto buy back
• 償うつぐなうto make up for
• 度するどするto redeem (from sin)
• 請け出すうけだすto redeem
• 受け戻すうけもどすto redeem (e.g. mortgage, pawned article)
• 贖うあがなうto atone for
• 根引きねびきuproot
• 救うすくうto save (spiritually)