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# פְּקֻדָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6486

**oversight** — used 32 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

oversight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6486/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּקֻדָּה: n.f. oversight, mustering, visitation, store [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6486/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. oversight, mustering, visitation, store;—abs. פ׳ Ho 9:7; 1 Ch 23:11; cstr. פְּקֻדַּת Nu 3:32 +; sf. פְּקֻדָּתוֹ 109:8, etc.; pl. פְּקֻדּ(וֹ)ת Je 52:11 +;— visitation: = punishment Ho 9:7; Is 10:3; Mi 7:4; Ez 9:1; Nu 16:29 (P), especially in (שְׁנַת)עֵת פְּקֻדָּתָם Je 8:12; 10:15 + 6 times Je (cf. עֵת c. פָּקַד 6:15; 49:8; 50:31), בֵּית הַפּ׳ = prison 52:11. gracious visitation, providence Jb 10:12. oversight, charge Nu 4:16 (P), also 3:36 (P; redund.), 1 Ch 26:30; = office 2 Ch 23:18. overseer (abstr. for concr.), 2 K 11:18; Ez 44:11 (c. אֶל rei), Nu 3:32 (P); coll. = magistracy Is 60:17 (LagBN 151), cf. 2 Ch 24:11. class of officers 1 Ch 23:11; 24:3, 19. charge = thing entrusted Nu 4:16 (P). mustering 2 Ch 17:14; 26:11. store, things laid up, Is 15:7 ψ 109:8 (perhaps; Hup WeSkizzen vi. 184 al. office).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: their punishment (8); the oversight (4); group (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 109:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.8/#tree)

יִֽהְיֽוּ־יָמָ֥יו מְעַטִּ֑ים פְּ֝קֻדָּת֗וֹ יִקַּ֥ח אַחֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* may.they.be days his few office his may.he.take another

*JPS 1917:* Let his days be few; let another take his charge.

[Jeremiah 10:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.15/#tree)

הֶ֣בֶל הֵ֔מָּה מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה תַּעְתֻּעִ֑ים בְּעֵ֥ת פְּקֻדָּתָ֖ם יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].futility they a.work of.mockeri(es) at the.time their.punishment their they.will.perish

*JPS 1917:* They are vanity, a work of delusion; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6486.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6486/): 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).