pakid · overseer

What it means

pakid (פָּקִיד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “overseer”.

Officer 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. One who supervises or directs something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• one appointed ×4
• overseers ×3
• charge ×2
• officer ×2
• overseer ×1
• were appointed ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×4
• Esther×1
• Jeremiah×3

• 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.

• Judges 9:28

  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 Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem! And why should we serve him?

• 2 Kings 25:19

  and from the city he took an official who was in charge of the men of war, and five men of those who saw the face of the king, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the chief of the army, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.

• 2 Chronicles 24:11

  And it happened, whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much silver, the king’s scribe and the appointed officer of the head priest would come and empty the chest, and take it and return it to its place. So they did day by day, and they gathered silver in abundance.

• 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.

• Nehemiah 11:9

  And Joel son of Zichri was the one appointed over them; and Judah son of Hassenuah was over the city, the second.

• Nehemiah 11:14

  and their brothers, mighty warriors: one hundred twenty-eight; and the one appointed over them was Zabdiel son of Haggedolim.

• Nehemiah 11:22

  And the one appointed of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the work of the house of Elohim.

• Nehemiah 12:42

  and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. And the singers made themselves heard, with Izrahiah the one appointed.

• Esther 2:3

  and let the king appoint overseers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them gather every young woman, a virgin of good appearance, to Susa, the fortress, to the house of the women, under the hand of Hege, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women; and let their ointments be given;

• Jeremiah 20:1

  And Pashhur son of Immer, the priest, heard —and he was chief overseer in the house of YHWH— Jeremiah prophesying these things.

• Jeremiah 29:26

  ‘YHWH has made you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, so that there may be overseers in the house of YHWH for every man who is mad and makes himself a prophet, that you may put him in the stocks and in the collar.

• Jeremiah 52:25

  and from the city he took an official who was in charge of the men of war, and seven men of those who saw the face of the king, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the chief of the army, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.