פדי, (b. h.) [to cut loose,] to liberate, redeem. Ab. Zar. 4ᵃ אם יש להם זכות אֶפְדֵּם if they have any merits, I will liberate them. Ib. (ref. to Hos. VII, 13) אני אמרתי אפדם בממונם וכ׳ I thought, I will ransom them by taking their money (impoverishing them) in this world, that they be admitted to the world to come. Deut. R. s. 2 ופוֹדֶה למי שרוצה he could acquit whomever he wanted to, opp. חָבַשׁ. Y. Yeb. XVI, 15ᶜ bot. הצלוב … ופְדָאֲתוֹ as regards him whom witnesses have seen impaled, I may say, an influential woman passed by and liberated him. Gitt. IV, 4 עבד שנשבה ופְדָאוּהוּ if a slave has been captured, and they (Jews) redeemed him. Ib. 6 אין פּוֹדִין את השבויין וכ׳ we must not redeem captured persons for more than their value, this is a measure of public benefit (v. תִּיקּוּן). Ib. 58ᵃ עד שאֶפְדֶּנּוּ בכל וכ׳ until I redeem him at any price they may ask. Maas. Sh. IV, 7 הפודה מעשר שני he that redeems second tithes (Deut. XIV, 26). Ib. 1 פּוֹדֵהוּ כשער מקומו he redeems the fruit at the market price of his own place. Ib. V, 4 כיצד פודין נטע רבעי how is fruit of the fourth year (Lev. XIX, 24) redeemed? מניח … כמה אדם רוצה לִפְדּוֹת לו בסלע וכ׳ he puts the basket down in the presence of three persons and says, how many basketfuls will a person buy for a Selʿa, to collect at his own expense?; a. v. fr.—Esp. a) to redeem the first-born (Ex. XIII, 12 sq.). Bekh. 49ᵇ הפודה את בנו וכ׳ if a man redeems his son before he is thirty days old. Ib. VIII, 6 הוא לפדות ובנו לפדות וכ׳ if he (the father) is to be redeemed (the parents having failed to redeem him), and the son is to be redeemed; Kidd. 29ᵃ. Ib. מצווה לפדות את עצמו is bound to redeem himself; a. fr.—b) to redeem an object dedicated to the sanctuary (Lev. XXVII, 13; 27, a. e.). Ib. פְּדָאוֹ במאתים וכ׳ if he bought an object back for two hundred Zuz, and before taking possession it went down &c.; a. fr.—Part. pass. פָּדוּי; f. פְּדוּיָה; pl. פְּדוּיִים, פְּדוּיִין, פְּדוּיוֹת. Ib. מה שפדה פ׳ what he bought is bought (his transaction is final). Bekh. 49ᵇ בנו פ׳ his son stands redeemed; a. e.