פָּדָה padah

Hebrew word for “to ransom” · Strong’s H6299 · used 59 times in 48 verses

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Meaning

1) to ransom, redeem, rescue, deliver;

How it is translated

Glosses given for padah in context, with how often each is used:

• will redeem 14
• redeemed 8
• redeem 7
• will ransom 5
• has ransomed 4
• certainly 3
• ransomed 3
• have redeemed 3
• will be redeemed 2
• people ransomed 2
• will let be ransomed 1
• had been released 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 18 (3), Exodus 13 (2), Leviticus 27 (2), Psalms 49 (2), Exodus 21 (1), Exodus 34 (1), Leviticus 19 (1), Deuteronomy 7 (1), Deuteronomy 9 (1), Deuteronomy 13 (1)

Forms

• תפדה 11
• פדה 9
• פדית 6
• יפדה 4
• ויפדך 3
• פדני 3
• והפדה 2
• לפדות 2
• ופדויי 2
• אפדם 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with padah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מִצְרַיִם mitsrayim “Egypt” 9
• פֶּטֶר peter “firstborn” 4
• נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 8
• בְּכוֹר bekhor “firstborn” 5
• עֶבֶד eved “servant/slave” 7
• חָזָק chazaq “strong” 4
• גָּאַל gaal “to redeem” 4
• אָדָם adam “man” 5
• צָרָה tsarah “distress” 3
• עָרַף araph “to break the neck” 2
• אִם im “if” 5
• חַי chay “alive” 4

Key verses

The verses using padah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 7:8 — But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and…
• Deuteronomy 9:26 — I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which…
• Deuteronomy 13:5 — And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of…
• Deuteronomy 15:15 — And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.
• 1 Samuel 14:45 — And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of…
• 2 Samuel 7:23 — And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for…
• Isaiah 35:10 — And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and…
• Isaiah 51:11 — Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and…
• Hosea 7:13 — Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken…
• Hosea 13:14 — I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance…
• Micah 6:4 — For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
• Zechariah 10:8 — I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.