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# פִּדְיוֹם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6306

**ransom** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ransom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6306/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פִּדְיוֹם: n.m. ransom Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6306/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ransom;—Nu 3:49, read prob. פְּדוּיִם (so Sam.); פִּדְיֹם v 51 Kt (Qr פְּדוּיִם);—v. פדה Qal Pt. pass., and פְּדוּיִם supr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the ransom (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 3:49](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.49/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.49/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֣ח מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֵ֖ת כֶּ֣סֶף הַפִּדְי֑וֹם מֵאֵת֙ הָעֹ֣דְפִ֔ים עַ֖ל פְּדוּיֵ֥י הַלְוִיִּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Moses (et) the.money of the.ransom from with \[those who.were\].in.excess to the.ransom(s) of the.Levites

*JPS 1917:* And Moses took the redemption-money from them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6306/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).