פְּקֻדָּה
pᵉquddâh · pek-ood-daw'
visitation (in many senses, chiefly official)
Lexicon
Derivation: feminine passive participle of H6485 (פָּקַד);
visitation (in many senses, chiefly official)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: account, (that have the) charge, custody, that which...laid up, numbers, office(-r), ordering, oversight, [phrase] prison, reckoning, visitation.
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
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to speak, the word › what comes behind, the returning cycle › the doorway, the way in › to reveal, behold
To speak, the word of what comes behind, the returning cycle of the doorway, the way in that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of פְּקֻדָּה 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
32 occurrences · 32 OT · 0 NT · 27 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of their visitation8 · 25%
- and thy visitation2 · 6%
- of visitation2 · 6%
- and have the oversight1 · 3%
- and under the custody1 · 3%
- and to the office1 · 3%
- and the oversight1 · 3%
- after the visitation1 · 3%
- officers1 · 3%
- reckoning1 · 3%
- according to their offices1 · 3%
- these were the orderings1 · 3%
- were officers1 · 3%
- and these are the numbers1 · 3%
- the offices1 · 3%
- office1 · 3%
- of their account1 · 3%
- his office1 · 3%
- and that which they have laid up1 · 3%
- thy officers1 · 3%
- him in prison1 · 3%
- cause them that have charge1 · 3%
- having charge1 · 3%
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.