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Hebrew verb · H6299

פָּדָה

padahpaw-daw'

to ransom

59 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: pâdâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6299is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 16 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 48
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6299

to sever, i.e. ransom; gener. to release, preserve

The King James renders it: [idiom] at all, deliver, [idiom] by any means, ransom, (that are to be, let be) redeem(-ed), rescue, [idiom] surely.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

padah is rendered "to ransom". It stands 59 times in the Hebrew text, across sixteen books.

  • Fourteen of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 13:13You must redeem every firstborn donkey with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. And every firstborn of your sons you must redeem.
  • The Greek text spells it forty-eight different ways.

The first use

You must redeem every firstborn donkey with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. And every firstborn of your sons you must redeem.

Exodus 13:13תִּפְדֶּ֣ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in sixteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 23 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • you will redeem10
  • he has ransomed4
  • and he redeemed you3
  • you redeemed3
  • and ransomed of2
  • he will ransom2
  • he will redeem2
  • redeem me2
  • to redeem2
  • you have redeemed2
  • and certainly to be released1
  • and he will let be ransomed her1

and 25 more, 59 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

פָּדוּיpaduyransomedUses4
פָּדַעpadato deliverUses1

The words it stands beside

All 59, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

48 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • יִפְדֶּ֣ה3
  • תִפְדֶּ֖ה3
  • אֶפְדֵּ֔ם2
  • וּפְדוּיֵ֨י2
  • פָּדָ֥ה2
  • פָּדִ֙יתָ֙2
  • תִּפְדֶּ֣ה2
  • תִּפְדֶּ֔ה2
  • תִּפְדֶּֽה׃2
  • אֶפְדֶּֽה׃1
  • וְהֶפְדָּ֑הּ1
  • וְהָפְדֵּה֙1

and 36 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular10HVqi2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular7HVqp2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular6HVqp3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp2ms3Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular3HVqv2ms/Sp1bs
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HC/Vqsmpc
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vqcc
  • verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute2HVqaa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HVqi1cs/Sp3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Td/Vqrmsc/Sp2ms

Exodus

eight uses
  • You must redeem every firstborn donkey with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. And every firstborn of your sons you must redeem.

    Exodus 13:13

    • תִּפְדֶּ֣הtifdehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will redeem
    • תִפְדֶּ֖הtifdehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will redeem
    • תִּפְדֶּֽה׃tifdehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will redeem
  • And when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. This is why I sacrifice to the LORD the firstborn male of every womb, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.’

    Exodus 13:15

    • אֶפְדֶּֽה׃ʾefdehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I redeem
  • If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who had designated her for himself, he must allow her to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has broken faith with her.

    Exodus 21:8

    • וְהֶפְדָּ֑הּvehefdahHc/Vhq3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he will let be ransomed her
  • You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before Me empty-handed.

    Exodus 34:20

    • תִּפְדֶּ֣הtifdehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will redeem
    • תִפְדֶּ֖הtifdehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will redeem
    • תִּפְדֶּ֔הtifdehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will redeem

Leviticus

four uses
  • If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

    Leviticus 19:20

    • וְהָפְדֵּה֙vehafedehconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative passive (hophal), infinitive absolutetagged: and certainly to be released
    • נִפְדָּ֔תָהnifdatahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she had been released
  • But if it is among the unclean animals, then he may redeem it according to your valuation and add a fifth of its value. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

    Leviticus 27:27

    • וּפָדָ֣הufadahHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will redeem
  • No person set apart for destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.

    Leviticus 27:29

    • יִפָּדֶ֑הyipadehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be redeemed

Numbers

six uses
  • The firstborn of every womb, whether man or beast, that is offered to the LORD belongs to you. But you must surely redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.

    Numbers 18:15

    • פָּדֹ֣הpadohverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to redeem
    • תִפְדֶּ֗הtifdehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will redeem
    • תִּפְדֶּֽה׃tifdehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will redeem
  • You are to pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.

    Numbers 18:16

    • וּפְדוּיָו֙ufeduyavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and redemption price its
    • תִּפְדֶּ֔הtifdehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will redeem
  • But you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    Numbers 18:17

    • תִפְדֶּ֖הtifdehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will redeem

Deuteronomy

six uses
  • But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

    Deuteronomy 7:8

    • וַֽיִּפְדְּךָ֙vaiyifdekhaHc/Vqw3ms/Sp2mstagged: and he redeemed you
  • And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

    Deuteronomy 9:26

    • פָּדִ֖יתָpaditaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you redeemed
  • Such a prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way in which the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. So you must purge the evil from among you.

    Deuteronomy 13:5

    • וְהַפֹּֽדְךָ֙vehapodekhaconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and who redeemed you
  • Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.

    Deuteronomy 15:15

    • וַֽיִּפְדְּךָ֖vaiyifdekhaHc/Vqw3ms/Sp2mstagged: and he redeemed you
  • Accept this atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.” And the bloodshed will be atoned for.

    Deuteronomy 21:8

    • פָּדִ֙יתָ֙paditaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you ransomed
  • Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

    Deuteronomy 24:18

    • וַֽיִּפְדְּךָ֛vaiyifdekhaHc/Vqw3ms/Sp2mstagged: and he redeemed you

1 Samuel

one use
  • But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die—he who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for with God’s help he has accomplished this today.” So the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.

    1 Samuel 14:45

    • וַיִּפְדּ֥וּvaiyifduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they redeemed

2 Samuel

three uses
  • But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,

    2 Samuel 4:9

    • פָּדָ֥הpadahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has ransomed
  • And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.

    2 Samuel 7:23

    • לִפְדּֽוֹת־lifdot-preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to redeem
    • פָּדִ֤יתָpaditaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you redeemed

1 Kings

one use
  • And the king swore an oath, saying, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,

    1 Kings 1:29

    • פָּדָ֥הpadahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has ransomed

1 Chronicles

two uses
  • And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.

    1 Chronicles 17:21

    • לִפְדּ֧וֹתlifdotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to redeem
    • פָּדִ֥יתָpaditaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you had redeemed

Nehemiah

one use
  • They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.

    Nehemiah 1:10

    • פָּדִ֙יתָ֙paditaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you redeemed

Job

three uses
  • In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

    Job 5:20

    • פָּֽדְךָ֣padekhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: he will ransom you
  • deliver me from the hand of the enemy; redeem me from the grasp of the ruthless’?

    Job 6:23

    • תִּפְדּֽוּנִי׃tifduniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you will ransom me
  • He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’

    Job 33:28

    • פָּדָ֣הpadahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has ransomed

Psalms

fourteen uses
  • Redeem Israel, O God, from all its distress.

    Psalms 25:22

    • פְּדֵ֣הpedehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: redeem
  • But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.

    Psalms 26:11

    • פְּדֵ֣נִיpedeniverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: redeem me
  • Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.

    Psalms 31:5

    • פָּדִ֖יתָהpaditahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have redeemed
  • The LORD redeems His servants, and none who take refuge in Him will be condemned.

    Psalms 34:22

    • פּוֹדֶ֣הpodehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: redeeming
  • Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.

    Psalms 44:26

    • וּ֝פְדֵ֗נוּufedenuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and redeem us
  • No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.

    Psalms 49:7

    • פָדֹ֣הfadohverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to ransom
    • יִפְדֶּ֣הyifdehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will ransom
  • But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah

    Psalms 49:15

    • יִפְדֶּ֣הyifdehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will redeem
  • He redeems my soul in peace from the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me.

    Psalms 55:18

    • פָּ֘דָ֤הpadahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will ransom
  • Draw near to my soul and redeem me; ransom me because of my foes.

    Psalms 69:18

    • פְּדֵֽנִי׃pedeniverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: ransom me
  • When I sing praise to You my lips will shout for joy, along with my soul, which You have redeemed.

    Psalms 71:23

    • פָּדִֽיתָ׃paditaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have redeemed
  • They did not remember His power— the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

    Psalms 78:42

    • פָּדָ֥םpadamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he ransomed them
  • Redeem me from the oppression of man, that I may keep Your precepts.

    Psalms 119:134

    • פְּ֭דֵנִיpedeniverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: redeem me
  • And He will redeem Israel from all iniquity.

    Psalms 130:8

    • יִפְדֶּ֣הyifdehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will redeem

Isaiah

four uses
  • Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.

    Isaiah 1:27

    • תִּפָּדֶ֑הtipadehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be redeemed
  • Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed and no more will his face grow pale.

    Isaiah 29:22

    • פָּדָ֖הpadahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he redeemed
  • So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

    Isaiah 35:10

    • וּפְדוּיֵ֨יufeduyeiconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and ransomed of
  • So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

    Isaiah 51:11

    • וּפְדוּיֵ֨יufeduyeiconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and ransomed of

Jeremiah

two uses
  • I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”

    Jeremiah 15:21

    • וּפְדִתִ֖יךָufeditikhaHc/Vqq1cs/Sp2mstagged: and I will ransom you
  • For the LORD has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand that had overpowered him.

    Jeremiah 31:11

    • פָדָ֥הfadahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has ransomed

Hosea

two uses
  • Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.

    Hosea 7:13

    • אֶפְדֵּ֔םʾefdemverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I will redeem them
  • I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

    Hosea 13:14

    • אֶפְדֵּ֔םʾefdemverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: will I ransom? them

Micah

one use
  • For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.

    Micah 6:4

    • פְּדִיתִ֑יךָpeditikhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I ransomed you

Zechariah

one use
  • I will whistle for them to gather, for I have redeemed them; and they will be as numerous as they once were.

    Zechariah 10:8

    • פְדִיתִ֑יםfeditimverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I have redeemed them

The letters

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Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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