pa.duy refers to people designated in the passage’s ransom and redemption context.

The term denotes people identified within the passage’s ransom and redemption transaction: the construct forms occur in clauses about those remaining and the silver taken for them, while the absolute plural occurs when that silver is given to Aaron and his sons.

1. People identified in the ransom transaction · dominant

   In Numbers 3:46, the construct plural identifies those remaining beyond the Levites; the APB renders the clause “The ransomed of the two hundred seventy-three who remain over the Levites.” In Numbers 3:48 and Numbers 3:49, the same construct form occurs in statements about silver given or taken in connection with those remaining. Numbers 3:51 uses the absolute plural in the concluding transfer of the ransom silver to Aaron and his sons.

   Numbers 3:46Numbers 3:48Numbers 3:49Numbers 3:51

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “ransomed” in Numbers 3:46 and refers to “the ransom” or “the redemption” in the surrounding transaction in the other verses. Its varying English wording cannot by itself identify the term’s precise contribution in every clause.