Psalm 44/Notes/Lexical.V. 27.533626
From Psalms: Layer by Layer
- The meaning of פְדֵנוּ: The basic meaning of the verb פדה is "to achieve the transfer of ownership from one to another through payment of a price or an equivalent substitute" (TWOT, 716). While the commercial concept of payment sometimes recedes in contexts of deliverance from danger (Ibid, 717), here in Ps 44, the term could be understood as a reversal of God's "selling" his people (v. 13).