To ransom
פָּדָהStrong’s H6299padah (pa-dah)
Appears in 48 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Padah is the Hebrew word usually translated “redeem”, “has ransomed” and “redeemed you”. It appears in 48 verses of the Old Testament.
“I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.”
Meaning
- To ransom, redeem, rescue, deliver(Qal) to ransom · (Niphal) to be ransomed · (Hiphil) to allow one to be ransomed · (Hophal) redeemed
How it's translated
- you will redeem 10
- he has ransomed 4
- and he redeemed you 3
- you redeemed 3
- certainly 2
- to redeem 2
- redeem me 2
- you have redeemed 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 13
- Deuteronomy 6
- Exodus 4
- Isaiah 4
- Leviticus 3
- Numbers 3
16 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 13:13And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.
- Exodus 13:15And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
- Exodus 21:8If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
- Exodus 34:20But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
- Leviticus 19:20And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
- Leviticus 27:27And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.
All 48 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
פָּדָה padah · to ransom
1) to ransom, redeem, rescue, deliver 1a) (Qal) to ransom 1b) (Niphal) to be ransomed 1c) (Hiphil) to allow one to be ransomed 1d) (Hophal) redeemed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ransom” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RAN'SOM, noun
- The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner or slave, or for goods captured by an enemy; that which procures the release of a prisoner or captive, or of captured property, and restores the one to liberty and the other to the original owner.
- Release from captivity, bondage or the possession of an enemy.
- In law, a sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; or a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
- In Scripture, the price paid for a forfeited life, or for delivery or release from capital punishment.“Then he shall give for the ransom of his life, whatever is laid upon him” Exodus 21:30
All definitions and other forms of “ransom”
- The price paid for procuring the pardon of sins and the redemption of the sinner from punishment.“Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom” Job 33:24“The Son of man came - to give his life a ransom for many” Matthew 20:28
RAN'SOM, verb transitive
- To redeem from captivity or punishment by paying an equivalent; applied to persons; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.
- To redeem from the possession of an enemy by paying a price deemed equivalent; applied to goods or property.
- In Scripture, to redeem from the bondage of sin, and from the punishment to which sinners are subjected by the divine law.“The ransomed of the Lord shall return” Isaiah 35:10
- To rescue; to deliver.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.