פָּדָה
to redeem
‘to redeem’ is one of 5 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘for an assessed price Ex 13’
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H6299 appears in the Book of Numbers — 3 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers
- Numbers 18:15 פָּדֹ֣ה תִפְדֶּ֗ה תִּפְדֶּֽה Qal inf.abs Qal impf 2ms Qal impf 2ms Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals shall you redeem.
- Numbers 18:16 וּ/פְדוּיָ/ו֙ תִּפְדֶּ֔ה conj + Qal ptcp.pass ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Qal impf 2ms Those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old shall you redeem, according to your estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs).
- Numbers 18:17 תִפְדֶּ֖ה Qal impf 2ms But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor to Yahweh.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
פדה — transliterated pâdâh — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to redeem.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “redeem” in the King James Version, “redeemed you” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It appears 48 verses across 16 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its moderately common vocabulary. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Psalms. The verb spans 3 stems, from Qal to Niphal. See the sense tree, 48-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6299 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 48
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 48 distinct verses.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #647
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 647 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 48 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 13 verses 27%
- Deuteronomy 6 verses 13%
- Exodus 4 verses 8%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 48 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 18 verses · 38%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 16 verses · 33%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 14 verses · 29%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Redeem 7×, Redeemed 7×, Thou hast redeemed 6×
- American Standard Version: Redeemed 8×, Redeem 7×, Thou hast redeemed 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Redeemed you 5×, Redeem 4×, You must redeem 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Redeem 6×, Redeemed you 4×, You have redeemed 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6299 across 59 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 23 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6299 across 58 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 21 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6299 across 54 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 23 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6299 across 69 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 31 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
10 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 10 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. פָּדָה Lv 27:27 +; sf. פָּֽדְךָ Jb 5:20; 2 ms. פָּדִיתָ Dt 9:26 +, etc.; Impf. יִפְדֶּה ψ 49:8 +, etc.; Imv. פְּדֵה ψ 25:22; sf. פְּדֵנִי ψ 26:11 + 3 times; Inf. abs. פָּדֹה Nu 18:15 ψ 49:8; cstr. לִפְדּוֹת 2 S 7:23 = 1 Ch 17:2; Pt. act. פּוֹדֶה ψ 34:23; sf. פֹּדְךָ Dt 13:6; pass. pl. cstr. פְּדוּיֵי Is 35:10; 51:11 Nu 3:49; also abs. פְּדוּיִם Nu 3:51 (Qr; Kt פדים), cstr. פְּדוּיֵי v 46; sf. פְּדוּיָו Nu 18:16 (all n. abstr. according to Di Köii. 1, 138, v. פְּדוּיִם, פִּדְיֹם infr.);—ransom: e.g. Leviticus 27:27
- 1. for an assessed price Ex 13:13, 15; 34:20 (J), Lv 27:27 Nu 3:46, 48, 49, 51; 18:15, 16, 17 (P). e.g. Exodus 13:13
- 2. from violence and death 1 S 14:45 Jb 6:23 ψ 49:8. e.g. 1 Samuel 14:45
- 3. God subj. (underlying thought of payment):
- a. from Egypt, c. מִן, מִבֵּית עֲבָדִים Dt 7:8; 13:6 Mi 6:4; מִנִּי־צָר ψ 78:42; ממצרים 2 S 7:23 (but del. פָּדִיתָ GeiUrschr. 288 We Dr al.) = 1 Ch 17:21; מִשָּׁם Dt 24:18; abs. Dt 9:26; 15:15; 21:8 Ne 1:10. e.g. Deuteronomy 7:8
- b. from exile, Je 31:11 Zc 10:8; פְּדוּיֵי י׳ יְשֻׁבוּן Is 35:10 = 51:11. e.g. Jeremiah 31:11
- c. in gen. Ho 7:13; מִכֹּל צָרוֹתָיו ψ 25:22; מִכֹּל עֲוֹנוֹתָיו ψ 130:8. e.g. Hosea 7:13
- d. c. acc. individ. ψ 26:11; 31:6; 44:27; 69:19; Abraham Is 29:22; פ׳ נפשׁ ψ 34:23; 71:23; + מכל צרה 2 S 4:9 1 K 1:29; מֵעֲבֹר בַּשָּׁ֑חַת Jb 33:28; מִקְּרָב־לִי ψ 55:19; מִמָּוֶת Jb 5:20; מיד שׁאול ψ 49:16 Ho 13:14; מֵעשֶׁק אָדָם ψ 119:134; מִכַּף עָרִיצִים Je 15:21. e.g. Psalms 26:11
Niphal
- Pf. 3 fs. (+ Hoph. Inf. abs.) הָפְדֵּה לֹא נִפְדָּ֑תָה Lv 19:20 she hath not been at all ransomed (from bondage); Impf. יִפָּדֶה Lv 27:29 (from ban); 3 fs. צִיּוֹן בְּמִשְׁפָּט תִּפָּדֶ֑ה Is 1:27. e.g. Leviticus 19:20
Hiphil
- Pf. 3 ms. sf. וְהֶפְדָּהּ Ex 21:8 he shall let her be ransomed. Hiph. Inf. abs. v. Niph. e.g. Exodus 21:8
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. ransom (NH in deriv.; Ph. in n.pr.; Assyrian padû, id., Arabic فَدَى; Ethiopic ፈደየ; Min. פדית redeemed or purchased land MordtBeitr. 23);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פָּדָה
- , v. פדי
פדה
- , Y. Sabb. I, 3ᵇ (פרה) פ׳ חד אפר, a corrupt., v. חוֹחָא
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 48 distinct written forms H6299 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6299, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- יפדיה Yiphdᵉyâh H3301 Iphedeiah
- פדהאל Pᵉdahʼêl H6300 Pedahel
- פדהצור Pᵉdâhtsûwr H6301 Pedahzur
- פדון Pâdôwn H6303 Padon
- פדיה Pᵉdâyâh H6305 Pedaiah
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 5 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 39 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 48 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Exodus 13:13
- Leviticus 19:20
- Numbers 18:15
- Deuteronomy 7:8
- 1 Samuel 14:45
- 2 Samuel 4:9
- 1 Kings 1:29
- 1 Chronicles 17:21
- Job 5:20
- Psalms 26:11
- Isaiah 1:27
- Jeremiah 15:21
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
