= causative action by which humans exchange animals or other humans by substituting them with money or with an(other) animal, as a result of which they will escape death or slavery
to ransom, to redeem
Exchange
= causative action by which humans cause other humans to be exchanged by substituting them with money, as a result of which they will escape slavery
to have (someone) redeemed, to have (someone) ransomed
Safe
literally: to redeem, ransom; hence: = causative action by which humans or deities help (other) humans out of a dangerous, life-threatening, or otherwise difficult situation