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# פָּקִיד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6496

**commissioner** — used 13 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

commissioner [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6496/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּקִיד: n.m. commissioner, deputy, overseer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6496/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. commissioner, deputy, overseer;—abs. פ׳ Je 20:1 +; cstr. פְּקִיד 2 Ch 24:11; Ne 11:22; sf. פְּקִידוֹ Ju 9:28; pl. פְּקִדִים Gn 41:34 Je 29:26, פְּקִידִים 2 Ch 31:13; Est 2:3;—commissioner, for special duty Gn 41:34 (E), Est 2:3; permanent deputy of king Ju 9:28, of priest 2 Ch 24:11, of Levites 31:13; overseer, one in charge of men, c. עַל of soldiers 2 K 25:19 = Je 52:25, Benjamites Ne 11:9, priests v 14; abs., without עַל Je 29:26 (of priest in temple, reading פָּקִיד Vrss Gie), cf. 20:1 (v. נָגִיד 3); c. sf. of Levites Ne 11:22, singers 12:42.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: overseer (2); overseers (2); \[was\] an officer (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 11:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.9/#tree)

וְיוֹאֵ֥ל בֶּן־זִכְרִ֖י פָּקִ֣יד עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם וִיהוּדָ֧ה בֶן־הַסְּנוּאָ֛ה עַל־הָעִ֖יר מִשְׁנֶֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and Joel the.son of.Zikri \[was\].overseer over them and Judah the.son of Hassenuah over the city \[was\].second.in.command

*JPS 1917:* And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city.

[Nehemiah 11:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.14/#tree)

וַאֲחֵיהֶם֙ גִּבּ֣וֹרֵי חַ֔יִל מֵאָ֖ה עֶשְׂרִ֣ים וּשְׁמֹנָ֑ה וּפָקִ֣יד עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם זַבְדִּיאֵ֖ל בֶּן־הַגְּדוֹלִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* and brothers their mighty.\[men\] of.strength one.hundred twenty and eight and.\[was\] overseer over them Zabdiel the.son of the.great.\[ones\]

*JPS 1917:* and their brethren, mighty men of valour, a hundred twenty and eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6496.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6496/): 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).