פָּדוּיִם
ransom
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
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.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 3 times (75%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6302 appears — 4 distinct verses across 1 book. 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 4 verses
- Numbers 3:46 פְּדוּיֵ֣י n c mp cs For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites,
- Numbers 3:48 פְּדוּיֵ֕י n c mp cs and you shall give the money, with which the remainder of them is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons."
- Numbers 3:49 פְּדוּיֵ֥י n c mp cs Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;
- Numbers 3:51 הַ/פְּדֻיִ֛ם ptcl def.art + n c mp and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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.
The Hebrew noun פדוי centers on the idea of “ransom.” With only 4 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. The word gravitates to Numbers (100%). Its earliest occurrence is Numbers 3:46. It clusters with פדה, פדיום and יפדיה under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6302 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 4 verses 100%
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 4 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 100%
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: Above them that were redeemed 1×, Are to be redeemed 1×, Is to be redeemed 1×
- American Standard Version: Above them that were redeemed 1×, Is redeemed 1×, Redemption 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Number redeemed 1×, Redeem 1×, Redemption 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ransoms 2×, Ransoms of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6302 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6302 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6302 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6302 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- ransom
Word origin
פָּדוּיִם n.[m.]pl.abstr. ransom
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פדה (pâdâh) (H6299) — to redeem.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H6302 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/פְּדֻיִ֛ם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Numbers 3:51 | 1 |
| פְּדוּיֵ֕י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Numbers 3:48 | 1 |
| פְּדוּיֵ֣י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Numbers 3:46 | 1 |
| פְּדוּיֵ֥י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Numbers 3:49 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6302, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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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.
