פָּקַד
pâqad · paw-kad'
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
- to visit (with friendly or hostile intent)
- by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: appoint, [idiom] at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up, look, make, [idiom] by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the) oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, [idiom] surely, visit, want.
Letters
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to speak, the word › what comes behind, the returning cycle › the doorway, the way in
To speak, the word of what comes behind, the returning cycle of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of פָּקַד above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
303 occurrences · 303 OT · 0 NT · 205 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and those that were numbered18 · 16%
- those that were numbered14 · 12%
- numbered11 · 10%
- according to those that were numbered7 · 6%
- behold, i will punish4 · 3%
- even those that were numbered4 · 3%
- all that were numbered4 · 3%
- visited4 · 3%
- that i will punish4 · 3%
- and i will punish4 · 3%
- were numbered4 · 3%
- shalt thou number3 · 3%
- visit3 · 3%
- and they that were numbered3 · 3%
- set3 · 3%
- will surely3 · 3%
- shall i not visit3 · 3%
- and visit3 · 3%
- that had the oversight3 · 3%
- and numbered3 · 3%
- all those that were numbered2 · 2%
- were not numbered2 · 2%
- i will visit2 · 2%
- visiting2 · 2%
- had visited2 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.