רדי, רָדָה I (b. h.; cmp. רָדַד) [to stamp, tread,] 1) (cmp. בָּעַט) to rebel, be contumacious. Yoma 40ᵇ אל … למינין לִרְדּוֹת Ms. M. (ed. לצדוקים) give the heretics no occasion to rebel (to argue in favor of their heresy); Tosef. ib. III (II), 2 לרדות אחריכם ed. Zuck. (Var. לרדותן אחריהם, corr. acc.) to rebel after you are gone; Par. III, 3; Sifra Vayikra, N’dab., ch. II, Par. 2. —2) to chastise. Mekh. Mishp. s. 4 הרוֹדֶה בבנו ובתלמידו he who chastises his son or his pupil (and kills him); Macc. II, 2 הרב הרודה את וכ׳ the teacher that punishes his pupil. Gen. R. s. 50, end בקש לִרְדוֹתָן and wanted to punish them; a. fr. —3) to subjugate, rule, govern. Gen. R. s. 8 (ref. to ורדו, Gen. I, 28) אם זכה רְדוּ ואם לאו יֵרְדוּ if man is good, (God says,) ‘rule’, if not, (God says,) ‘let them go down’; ib. (ref. to וירדו, ib. 26 את שהוא … יִרְדּוּ את שאינו … יֵרְדוּ (not ורדו) concerning such as are ‘in our image and likeness’ (I say,) ‘they shall rule’ &c. Ib. יבא … ויִרְדֶּה למי וכ׳ let ‘our image and likeness’ (the good man) rule over him who is not &c.; Yalk. ib. 14.—[Tosef. Ter. IX, 12 ed. Zuck. ירדנו, v. עִרְעֵד III.]
Pi. - רִידָּה 1) to drive, chase. Ex. R. s. 20 עד שאֲרַדֶּה אותן וכ׳ until I drive them into the sea. —2) to chastise. Ex. R. s. 1 לא רִידָּהוּ he did not chastise him. Ib. ולא רידהו ביסורין he did not punish him with sufferings. Ib. (play on ארדון, I Chr. II, 18, as a surname of Caleb) שר׳ את יצרו he chastised (or subjugated, v. supra) his evil inclination. Yalk. Prov. 959 אֲרַדֶּה אותך וכ׳ (or אֶרְדֶּה) I shall punish thee with them; a. e. —3) to stamp. M. Kat. 7ᵃ, v. רָדַד. —4) (cmp. כָּבַשׁ) to dam, make passable. Erub. 104ᵃ חצר … תבּן ומְרַדֶּה בה (Alf. מדדה, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 40) if a court has been made impassable through rain, he may bring straw and make a path with it; ib. וכשהוא מרדה אינו מרדה וכ׳ and when he makes the path, he must not do so by carrying the straw in a basket &c.