מִפְקָד
mifkad · count, census; appointed place
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4662 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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mifkad (מִפְקָד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “count, census; appointed place”.
Count, census; also an appointment or an appointed place. It comes from the verb "count, muster".
How to say it
mif·kad
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
- The count of the people, above all of the men of war.
- What is assigned to someone by order: his charge or his arrangement.
- A spot fixed beforehand.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- census ×2
- appointed place ×1
- arrangement ×1
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Samuel 24:9
Joab gave the number of the census of the people to the king: Israel was eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah five hundred thousand men.
- 1 Chronicles 21:5
Joab gave the number of the census of the people to David. All Israel was a million and a hundred thousand men who drew the sword, and Judah four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew the sword.
- 2 Chronicles 31:13
Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were appointed under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the arrangement of Hezekiah the king and of Azariah the leader of the house of Elohim.
- Ezekiel 43:21
And you shall take the bull of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary.