pakad · attend to, count

What it means

pakad (פָּקַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “attend to, count”.

Attend to someone, take note of him. When God does it, he intervenes: for good (to fulfill a promise) or to call to account and punish. Also count, muster, appoint over, put in charge.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To attend to someone; God comes to help.
2. To call to account, punish.
3. To list a people, how many there are.
4. To put someone in charge.
5. To find something gone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Attend to someone, pay attention to him; from there, depending on the case, to step in on his behalf, call him to account, count (muster) or put someone in charge. BDB defines it as to visit, with friendly or hostile intent, and by analogy to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss.

• God attends to someone for good: he fulfills what he promised Genesis 21:1Genesis 50:24Ruth 1:6
• To call iniquity to account Exodus 20:5Exodus 34:7
• To count in a census Numbers 1:19
• To put in charge, to appoint Genesis 39:4Genesis 41:34
• To visit; to “visit upon” someone his evil Judges 15:1Jeremiah 23:2

How we translate it

“Those of them counted” 46 times, “counted” 32, “those counted” 25, “appoint” 13, “I will punish” 12, “count” 12, “punish” 11. This edition's glossary sets “count, attend to”: for someone's good, “attend to”; against someone, “call to account” or “punish”; in censuses, “count”; פָּקַד עָוֺן, “calling to account the iniquity”. In Jeremiah 23:2 “visit” is kept so that the play of the original can be seen: the shepherds “have not visited” the sheep, and YHWH is “visiting upon” them.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• those of them counted ×46
• counted ×32
• those counted ×25
• appoint ×13
• I will punish ×12
• count ×12
• punish ×11
• appointed ×8
• call ×8
• missing ×8
• others ×128

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×9
• Exodus×18
• Leviticus×3
• Numbers×103
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×2
• Judges×6
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×18
• 2 Samuel×5
• 1 Kings×8
• 2 Kings×12
• 1 Chronicles×3
• 2 Chronicles×7
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Esther×1
• Job×6
• Psalms×9
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×16
• Jeremiah×49
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Hosea×7
• Amos×3
• Zephaniah×5
• Zechariah×3

• Genesis 21:1

  YHWH attended to Sarah as he had said, and YHWH did for Sarah as he had spoken.

• Genesis 39:4

  So Joseph found favor in his eyes, and he served him; and he appointed him over his house, and all that he had he put in his hand.

• Genesis 39:5

  From the time that he appointed him in his house and over all that he had, YHWH blessed the house of the Egyptian because of Joseph; and the blessing of YHWH was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.

• Genesis 40:4

  The chief of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them; and they were some days in custody.

• Genesis 41:34

  Let Pharaoh act, and appoint overseers over the land, and take a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance.

• Genesis 50:24

  Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but Elohim will surely attend to you and bring you up from this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

• Genesis 50:25

  Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “Elohim will surely attend to you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

• Exodus 3:16

  Go and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers, has appeared to me, the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, “I have surely attended to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt,

• Exodus 4:31

  And the people believed; and when they heard that YHWH had attended to the sons of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed and worshiped.

• Exodus 13:19

  Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had solemnly made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “Elohim will surely attend to you, and you shall carry up my bones from here with you.”

• Exodus 20:5

  You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I, YHWH your Elohim, am a jealous El, calling to account the iniquity of the fathers on the sons, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

• Exodus 30:12

  “When you take the census of the sons of Israel by their numbering, each shall give a compensation for his life to YHWH when they are numbered, so that there will be no plague among them when they are numbered.

• Exodus 30:13

  This they shall give, everyone who passes over to those numbered: half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to YHWH.

• Exodus 30:14

  Everyone who passes over to those numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the contribution of YHWH.

• Exodus 32:34

  But now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Look, my angel shall go before you. But on the day when I call to account I will call them to account for their sin.”

• Exodus 34:7

  keeping loyal love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, calling to account the iniquity of fathers on sons and on sons’ sons, to the third and to the fourth generation.”

• Exodus 38:21

  These are the accounts of the dwelling, the dwelling of the testimony, which were recorded by order of Moses, the service of the Levites, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

• Exodus 38:25

  And the silver of those counted of the community was a hundred talents and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary:

• Exodus 38:26

  a beka per head, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

• Leviticus 6:4

  when he has sinned and is guilty, he shall restore what he robbed or what he gained by exploitation or the deposit that was deposited with him or the lost thing that he found,

• Leviticus 18:25

  So the land became unclean, and I punished its iniquity on it, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

• Leviticus 26:16

  then I will do this to you: I will appoint over you terror, wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and drain the life; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

• Numbers 1:3

  From twenty years old and upward, everyone in Israel who goes out to the army, you shall count them by their armies, you and Aaron.

• Numbers 1:19

  as YHWH had commanded Moses. So he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.

• Numbers 1:21

  those of them counted from the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.

• Numbers 1:22

  Of the sons of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those of them counted, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:23

  those of them counted from the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

• Numbers 1:25

  those of them counted from the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

• Numbers 1:27

  those of them counted from the tribe of Judah were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

• Numbers 1:29

  those of them counted from the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 1:31

  those of them counted from the tribe of Zebulun were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 1:33

  those of them counted from the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand five hundred.

• Numbers 1:35

  those of them counted from the tribe of Manasseh were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

• Numbers 1:37

  those of them counted from the tribe of Benjamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 1:39

  those of them counted from the tribe of Dan were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

• Numbers 1:41

  those of them counted from the tribe of Asher were forty-one thousand five hundred.

• Numbers 1:43

  those of them counted from the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 1:44

  These are those counted whom Moses and Aaron counted with the chiefs of Israel, twelve men; they were one man for each fathers’ house.

• Numbers 1:45

  So all those counted of the sons of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, everyone in Israel who went out to the army,

• Numbers 1:46

  all those counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

And 263 more times.