ransom-price

Greek lytron which, in the Old Testament means generally a ransom-price.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The most delicate part of the task lay in the choice of captives amid the solicitations with which the monks were besieged and the negotiations for settling the ransom-price between the corsairs and the Trinitarians, between the exactions of the former and the limited resources of the latter.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

And this truth of a ransom-price lies at the basis of all vigorous

Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Alexander Maclaren 1868

That sacrifice is the ransom-price through which our captivity is ended, and our liberty assured.

Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren 1868

Our family, like all others of peasant rank in the land, were plunged into deep distress, and felt the pinch severely, through the failure of the potato, the badness of other crops, and the ransom-price of food.

The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals John Gibson Paton 1865

It is possible he may be redeemed by his own nation with a vast ransom-price; but if not, he will probably pass his days a captive, unless he consents to a proposition, which will be made to him by the prince, for recovering his liberty — namely, the surrender of the northern half of his kingdom to Egypt, in order that he may be permitted to reign over the remainder.

The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage 1859

It was a law among these people, when two men formed a business partnership in which each placed the same amount of money, that if one of them went to traffic with the money belonging to both, and while on a trading journey were captured by enemies, the other man who remained in the village must go to ransom his partner, with half of the ransom-price agreed upon; and the captive was then released from liability -- not only for what was due to the partnership, but for the amount which was afterward given for his ransom, and was not obliged to pay anything.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century Various 1906