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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6496

פָּקִיד

paqidpaw-keed'

overseer

13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: pâqîyd

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6496is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 7 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 12
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6496

a superintendent (civil, military or religious)

The King James renders it: which had the charge, governor, office, overseer, (that) was set.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

paqid is rendered "overseer". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Nehemiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 41:34Let Pharaoh take action and appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.
  • The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.

The first use

Let Pharaoh take action and appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

Genesis 41:34פְּקִדִ֖ים

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Four of the word's thirteen uses are in Nehemiah.

The other 32 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • overseers3
  • an officer2
  • overseer2
  • and officer of1
  • and overseer1
  • and overseer of1
  • appointees1
  • deputy his1
  • the overseer1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

פָּקַדpaqadto reckon: listUses303
פָּקַחpaqachto openUses20

All 13, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

12 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • פָקִ֣יד׀2
  • הַפָּקִֽיד׃1
  • וּפְקִיד֙1
  • וּפְקִ֤יד1
  • וּפָקִ֣יד1
  • פְּקִדִ֖ים1
  • פְּקִדִים֙1
  • פָקִ֥יד1
  • פָּקִ֣יד1
  • פְּקִיד֑וֹ1
  • פְּקִידִ֗ים1
  • פְּקִידִים֮1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine plural4HNcmpa
  • noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HC/Ncmsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa

Genesis

one use
  • Let Pharaoh take action and appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

    Genesis 41:34

    • פְּקִדִ֖יםpekidimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: overseers

Judges

one use
  • Then Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? You are to serve the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem. Why should we serve Abimelech?

    Judges 9:28

    • פְּקִיד֑וֹpekidonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: deputy his

2 Kings

one use
  • Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as five royal advisors. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.

    2 Kings 25:19

    • פָקִ֣יד׀fakidnoun · masculine singulartagged: overseer

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • Whenever the chest was brought by the Levites to the king’s overseers and they saw that there was a large amount of money, the royal scribe and the officer of the high priest would come and empty the chest and carry it back to its place. They did this daily and gathered the money in abundance.

    2 Chronicles 24:11

    • וּפְקִיד֙ufekidconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and officer of
  • Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the authority of Conaniah and his brother Shimei, by appointment of King Hezekiah and of Azariah the chief official of the house of God.

    2 Chronicles 31:13

    • פְּקִידִ֗יםpekidimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: overseers

Nehemiah

four uses
  • Joel son of Zichri was the officer over them, and Judah son of Hassenuah was over the Second District of the city.

    Nehemiah 11:9

    • פָּקִ֣ידpakidnoun · masculine singulartagged: overseer
  • Amashai son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer; and his associates—128 mighty men of valor. Zabdiel son of Haggedolim was their overseer.

    Nehemiah 11:14

    • וּפָקִ֣ידufakidconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and overseer
  • Now the overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica. He was one of Asaph’s descendants, who were the singers in charge of the service of the house of God.

    Nehemiah 11:22

    • וּפְקִ֤ידufekidconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and overseer of
  • and also Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. Then the choirs sang out under the direction of Jezrahiah.

    Nehemiah 12:42

    • הַפָּקִֽיד׃hapakidthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the overseer

Esther

one use
  • and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, and let them be given beauty treatments.

    Esther 2:3

    • פְּקִידִים֮pekidimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: appointees

Jeremiah

three uses
  • When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and the chief official in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,

    Jeremiah 20:1

    • פָקִ֥ידfakidnoun · masculine singulartagged: an officer
  • ‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet—you must put him in stocks and neck irons.

    Jeremiah 29:26

    • פְּקִדִים֙pekidimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: overseers
  • Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.

    Jeremiah 52:25

    • פָקִ֣יד׀fakidnoun · masculine singulartagged: an officer

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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