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# פִּדְיוֹן

Biblical Hebrew

**ransom** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ransom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b4_5bc_5d3_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פִּדְיוֹן: n.m. id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b4_5bc_5d3_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. id.;—פּ׳ נֶפֶשׁ Ex 21:30 (E); ψ 49:9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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 (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 49:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.49.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.49.9/#tree)

וְ֭יֵקַר פִּדְי֥וֹן נַפְשָׁ֗ם וְחָדַ֥ל לְעוֹלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.is.precious the.ransom their.life their and he.will.cease forever of.perpetuity

*JPS 1917:* For too costly is the redemption of their soul, and must be let alone for ever —

[Exodus 21:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.30/#tree)

אִם־כֹּ֖פֶר יוּשַׁ֣ת עָלָ֑יו וְנָתַן֙ פִּדְיֹ֣ן נַפְשׁ֔וֹ כְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־יוּשַׁ֖ת עָלָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* if a.ransom it.will.be.imposed on him and he.will.give the.ransom his.life his according to.all that it.will.be.imposed on him

*JPS 1917:* If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b4_5bc_5d3_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5df/): 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).