פָּדָהpâdâh

ransom

Pronunciation: paw-daw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6299

Meanings

Qal: ransom (Leviticus 27:27; Job 5:20; Deuteronomy 9:26)

1. for an assessed price (Exodus 13:13; Exodus 13:15; Exodus 34:20)

2. from violence and death (1 Samuel 14:45; Job 6:23; Psalms 49:8)

3. God subject (underlying thought of payment)

a. from Egypt (Deuteronomy 7:8; Deuteronomy 13:6; Micah 6:4)

b. from exile (Jeremiah 31:11; Zechariah 10:8; Isaiah 35:10)

c. in general (Hosea 7:13; Psalms 25:22; Psalms 130:8)

d. with accusative individual (Psalms 26:11; Psalms 31:6; Psalms 44:27)

Niph`al: (+ Hoph`al Infinitive absolute) (Leviticus 19:20; Leviticus 27:29; Isaiah 1:27)

Hiph`il: he shall let her be ransomed (Exodus 21:8)

Hoph`al: see Niph`al

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 59 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 13:13 A firstborn donkey may be bought back from the Lord by presenting a lamb or young goat in its place. But if you do not buy it back, you must break its neck. However, you must buy back every firstborn son.
  • Exodus 13:15 Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, so the Lord killed all the firstborn males throughout the land of Egypt, both people and animals. That is why I now sacrifice all the firstborn males to the Lord—except that the firstborn sons are always bought back.’
  • Exodus 21:8 If she does not satisfy her owner, he must allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her.
  • Exodus 34:20 A firstborn donkey may be bought back from the Lord by presenting a lamb or young goat in its place. But if you do not buy it back, you must break its neck. However, you must buy back every firstborn son. “No one may appear before me without an offering.
  • Leviticus 19:20 “If a man has sex with a slave girl whose freedom has never been purchased but who is committed to become another man’s wife, he must pay full compensation to her master. But since she is not a free woman, neither the man nor the woman will be put to death.
  • Leviticus 27:27 However, you may buy back the firstborn of a ceremonially unclean animal by paying the priest’s assessment of its worth, plus 20 percent. If you do not buy it back, the priest will sell it at its assessed value.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).