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# פְּקִדֻת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6488

**oversight** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

oversight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6488/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּקִדֻת: n.f. oversight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6488/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. oversight;—בַּעַל פ׳ Je 37:13 sentinel.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of \[the\] guard (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 37:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.37.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.37.13/#tree)

וַיְהִי־ה֞וּא בְּשַׁ֣עַר בִּנְיָמִ֗ן וְשָׁם֙ בַּ֣עַל פְּקִדֻ֔ת וּשְׁמוֹ֙ יִרְאִיָּ֔יה בֶּן־שֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֖ה בֶּן־חֲנַנְיָ֑ה וַיִּתְפֹּ֞שׂ אֶֽת־יִרְמְיָ֤הוּ הַנָּבִיא֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר אֶל־הַכַּשְׂדִּ֖ים אַתָּ֥ה נֹפֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and it.was he \[was\].at the.gate of.Benjamin and.\[was\] there a.captain of.\[the\].guard and name his \[was\].Irijah the.son of.Shelemiah the.son of.Hananiah and he.arrested (et) Jeremiah the prophet (cmp) to the Chaldeans you \[are\].falling

*JPS 1917:* And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying: 'Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6488.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6488/): 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).