פָּדַע
to deliver
‘to deliver’ is one of 2 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”).
Form
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
Person
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6308 appears — 1 distinct verse 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.
Job 1 verse
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.
At its core, פדע (pâdaʻ) means “to deliver.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. The word gravitates to Job (100%). Its lone occurrence is Job 33:24. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6308 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Job 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 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: Deliver 1×
- American Standard Version: Saith deliver 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Spare him 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Redeem him 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6308 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6308 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6308 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6308 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- (Qal) to deliver
- meaning uncertain
Word origin
[ פָּדַע ] vb. dub. only Jb 33:24 a mng. like deliver him needed
— 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.
פָּדַע
- (b. h.) = פָּדָה, to redeem. Y. Kidd. I, end, 61ᵈ (ref. to Job XXXIII, 24) פְּדָעֵהוּ בייסורין redeem him (let him expiate his sins) by sufferings (cmp. next w.). e.g. Job 33:24
פְּדַע I
- (cmp. פדד, s. v. פַּדָּן) to split; to wound. Targ. I Kings XX, 37 (h. text פצע).—Snh. 109ᵇ דפ׳ ליה לחבריה וכ׳ (in Sodom) when a person wounded his neighbor, they told him, pay him for bleeding thee. Ib. פַּדְעֵיה Ms. M. one (of them) struck him; ed. פַּדְיוּהִי, פַּדְיוּהוּ (fr. פדי) they struck him. Lev. R. s. 12; Esth. R. to I, 22 (Par. 5) מחיוניה ופַדְעוּנֵיה they struck him and wounded him; a. e.
פְּדַע II
- (preced.) blow, wound. Targ. O. Ex. XXI, 25 (Y. פּוֹ׳, פּוּ׳). Targ. Y. I ib. XV, 25 פַּדְעָא.—Koh. R. to VI, 11 או חד פדעה or he receives a blow (from a noxious animal, v. אמכותי).—Pl. פִּדְעִין or פְּדָעִין. Lev. R. s. 12; Esth. R. to I, 22 (Par. 5) פ׳ דמגן (transl. of פצעים חנם, Prov. XXIII, 29) wounds unrequited. V. פּוּדְעֲתָא. e.g. Proverbs 23:29
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.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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