רַדַּי
Raddai
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H7288 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.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
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At its core, רדי (Radday) means “Raddai.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in 1 Chronicles (100% of all occurrences). A true hapax — its single appearance is 1 Chronicles 2:14. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7288 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).
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Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 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
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BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Raddai 1×
- American Standard Version†: Raddai 1×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Raddai 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Raddai 1×
King James Version Public Domain
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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.
- Raddai = "trampling"
- the 5th son of Jesse and brother of David
Word origin
n.pr.m. fifth son of Jesse, according to 1 Ch 2:14; Ζαδδαι, A Ραδδαι, 𝔊L Ρεδαι.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רדה (râdâh) (H7287) — to rule.
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.
רדי
- [to stamp, tread,]
- 1. (cmp. בָּעַט) to rebel, be contumacious. Yoma 40ᵇ אל … למינין לִרְדּוֹת Ms. M. (ed. לצדוקים) give the heretics no occasion to rebel (to argue in favor of their heresy); Tosef. ib. III (II), 2 לרדות אחריכם ed. Zuck. (Var. לרדותן אחריהם, corr. acc.) to rebel after you are gone; Par. III, 3; Sifra Vayikra, N’dab., ch. II, Par. 2.
- 2. to chastise. Mekh. Mishp. s. 4 הרוֹדֶה בבנו ובתלמידו he who chastises his son or his pupil (and kills him); Macc. II, 2 הרב הרודה את וכ׳ the teacher that punishes his pupil. Gen. R. s. 50, end בקש לִרְדוֹתָן and wanted to punish them; a. fr.
- 3. to subjugate, rule, govern. Gen. R. s. 8 (ref. to ורדו, Gen. I, 28) אם זכה רְדוּ ואם לאו יֵרְדוּ if man is good, (God says,) ‘rule’, if not, (God says,) ‘let them go down’; ib. (ref. to וירדו, ib. 26 את שהוא … יִרְדּוּ את שאינו … יֵרְדוּ (not ורדו) concerning such as are ‘in our image and likeness’ (I say,) ‘they shall rule’ &c. Ib. יבא … ויִרְדֶּה למי וכ׳ let ‘our image and likeness’ (the good man) rule over him who is not &c.; Yalk. ib. 14.—[Tosef. Ter. IX, 12 ed. Zuck. ירדנו, v. עִרְעֵד III.] e.g. Genesis 1:28
- 1. to drive, chase. Ex. R. s. 20 עד שאֲרַדֶּה אותן וכ׳ until I drive them into the sea.
- 2. to chastise. Ex. R. s. 1 לא רִידָּהוּ he did not chastise him. Ib. ולא רידהו ביסורין he did not punish him with sufferings. Ib. (play on ארדון, I Chr. II, 18, as a surname of Caleb) שר׳ את יצרו he chastised (or subjugated, v. supra) his evil inclination. Yalk. Prov. 959 אֲרַדֶּה אותך וכ׳ (or אֶרְדֶּה) I shall punish thee with them; a. e. e.g. 1 Chronicles 2:18
- 3. to stamp. M. Kat. 7ᵃ, v. רָדַד.
- 4. (cmp. כָּבַשׁ) to dam, make passable. Erub. 104ᵃ חצר … תבּן ומְרַדֶּה בה (Alf. מדדה, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 40) if a court has been made impassable through rain, he may bring straw and make a path with it; ib. וכשהוא מרדה אינו מרדה וכ׳ and when he makes the path, he must not do so by carrying the straw in a basket &c.
רְדֵי
- 1. to chastise. Targ. I Kings XII, 11. Targ. Prov. III, 12. Ib. XXXI, 1. Targ. Ps. XII, 7 רָדָאן (ed. Wil. דדאן, corr. acc.); a. fr.
- 2. to drive, rule. Ib. CX, 2. Targ. Lev. XXVI, 17; a. e.
- to be chastened; to be instructed. Targ. Jer. VI, 8. Targ. Prov. XXIX, 19. Targ. Y. Lev. XX, 5; a. fr.
רדי ²
- to take down; to detach, break off, esp. a) to take honey out of the bee-hive. Ukts. III, 10 כוורת … והרוֹדֶה ממנה וכ׳ a bee-hive … is regarded as landed estate …, and he who breaks honey out of it on the Sabbath &c.; Shebi. X, 7; B. Bath. 66ᵃ; 80ᵇ. B. Mets. 64ᵃ ההולך … לִרְדוֹת את כוורתו if a person goes to take the honey out of his bee-hive; מה שכוורתי רוֹדָה כך וכך וכ׳ whatever my bee-hive may yield shall be thine for such and such an amount; a. fr.—2) ר׳ (פת) to detach bread from where it sticks to the oven, to shovel out. Sabb. 4ᵃ הדביק … התירו לו לִרְדוֹתָהּ וכ׳ if a person stuck a loaf to the wall of an oven (on the Sabbath), would you permit him to take it out (before it is baked) &c.? Makhsh. III, 3. Yoma 38ᵃ; Tosef. ib. II, 5 אינן בקיעין לִרְדוֹתָם they were not skilled in taking them off (without breaking); a. fr.—Y. Pes. III, 30ᵃ bot. יִרְדֶּנָּה let him detach it (the piece dedicated as Ḥallah) from the loaf.
- to be detached, taken out of the oven. Tosef. Yoma l. c. והיה נאפה ונ׳ מבפנים (Var. והיא נִרְדֵּית) it was baked in, and taken out from the interior of the oven; Cant. R. to III, 6 נִרְדִּת.
רְדֵי ²
- , Pa. רַדֵּי same. Targ. Y. Lev. XXVI, 26 ומְרַדְּיָין (some ed. ומדדין, corr. acc.).
רְדִי
- (cmp. רדי I) [to subjugate the ground; cmp. Gen. I, 28; cmp. נִיר I], to plough. Targ. Ps. CXXIX, 3 רָדוּ (ed. Lag. רָאדוּ, v. דְּאַר). Targ. Hos. X, 11. Targ. I Kings XIX, 19; a. fr.—Y. Shebi. IV, 35ᵃ bot. מֵירְדֵי; Y. Snh. III, 21ᵇ top מֵרְדָה, v. הָאַסְטוּ. Y. Ber. II, 5ᵃ top הוה קאים רָדֵי (not רדי) was ploughing; Lam. R. to I, 16 הוה קא רדי. Y. B. Mets. IX, beg. 12ᵃ לתלוש … פוק רְדִיתָהּ (not דריתה) where it is customary to pluck, and the tenant cut the grain, we say to him, go out and plough the field (for the owner); a. fr. e.g. Genesis 1:28
- to be ploughed. Targ. Am. VI, 12. Targ. Mic. III, 12; a. e.
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.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Raddai). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(trampling), one of David's brothers, fifth son of Jesse. (1 Chronicles 2:14)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
ruling; coming down
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
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