pekuda · oversight, charge, visitation

What it means

pekuda (פְּקֻדָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “oversight, charge, visitation”.

Charge, responsibility over something or someone; oversight. Elsewhere, the time when God steps in to call to account.

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. A charge, responsibility for something.
2. When God calls to account: what falls on the guilty.
3. A listing of people, or something kept safe.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• punishment ×10
• oversight ×4
• count ×2
• office ×2
• offices ×2
• administration ×1
• appointed ×1
• care ×1
• census ×1
• custody ×1
• others ×7

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Numbers×5
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×4
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×9
• Ezekiel×2
• Hosea×1
• Micah×1

• Numbers 3:32

  And the chief of the chiefs of the Levites is Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, with oversight of those who keep the charge of the Holy Place.

• Numbers 3:36

  And the appointed charge of the sons of Merari is the frames of the dwelling, and its bars, and its pillars, and its bases, and all its utensils, and all its service,

• Numbers 4:16

  And the oversight of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest is the oil for the light, and the fragrant incense, and the continual grain offering, and the anointing oil, the oversight of the whole dwelling and of all that is in it, in the Holy Place and in its utensils.”

• Numbers 16:29

  If these men die as all human beings die, and the fate of all human beings is visited on them, YHWH has not sent me.

• 2 Kings 11:18

  All the people of the land went to the house of Baal and tore it down; its altars and its images they smashed thoroughly, and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they killed before the altars. And the priest set guards over the house of YHWH.

• 1 Chronicles 23:11

  Jahath was the head, and Ziza the second; but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons, so they became a father’s house in a single census.

• 1 Chronicles 24:3

  David divided them, with Zadok from the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech from the sons of Ithamar, according to their office in their service.

• 1 Chronicles 24:19

  These were their offices for their service, to come into the house of YHWH according to their rule, through Aaron their father, as YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, had commanded him.

• 1 Chronicles 26:30

  Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, capable men, one thousand seven hundred, were over the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the work of YHWH and for the service of the king.

• 2 Chronicles 17:14

  And this is their count by their fathers’ houses: of Judah, commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander, and with him mighty men of valor, three hundred thousand;

• 2 Chronicles 23:18

  Jehoiada put the offices of the house of YHWH in the hand of the priests, the Levites, whom David had divided over the house of YHWH, to offer the burnt offerings of YHWH, as it is written in the law of Moses, with joy and with song, under the direction of David.

• 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 26:11

  Uzziah had a force that made war, going out to the army by bands, according to the number of their count, by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the supervisor, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the commanders of the king.

• Job 10:12

  Life and loyal love you have shown me, and your care has kept my spirit.

• Psalms 109:8

  Let his days be few; let another take his office.

• Isaiah 10:3

  And what will you do on the day of visitation, and in the storm that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?

• Isaiah 15:7

  Therefore the surplus they have made and their stores over the brook of the Willows they carry away.

• Isaiah 60:17

  Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver, and instead of wood, bronze, and instead of stones, iron; and I will make your administration peace, and your taskmasters righteousness.

• Jeremiah 8:12

  Were they ashamed because they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, and to blush they did not know. Therefore they will fall among those who fall; at the time of their punishment they will stumble, says YHWH.

• Jeremiah 10:15

  Vapor are they, a work of mockery; in the time of their punishment they will perish.

• Jeremiah 11:23

  and there will be no remnant left for them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, the year of their punishment.”

• Jeremiah 23:12

  Therefore their way will be to them like slippery places in the darkness; they will be driven on and fall in it; for I will bring evil upon them, the year of their punishment, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 46:21

  Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like calves from the stall; for they too have turned back, they have fled together; they did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.

• Jeremiah 48:44

  The one who flees from before the terror will fall into the pit, and the one who climbs up out of the pit will be caught in the snare; for I will bring upon her, upon Moab, the year of their punishment, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 50:27

  Slay all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter! Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.

• Jeremiah 51:18

  Vapor are they, a work of mockery; in the time of their punishment they will perish.

• Jeremiah 52:11

  And the eyes of Zedekiah he blinded, and bound him in bronze chains; and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon, and put him in the house of custody until the day of his death.

• Ezekiel 9:1

  And he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, “Draw near, you who are in charge of the city, each with his instrument of destruction in his hand.”

• Ezekiel 44:11

  And they shall be in my sanctuary ministers, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house; they shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

• Hosea 9:7

  The days of punishment have come, the days of retribution have come; Israel will know it. The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad, because of the abundance of your iniquity, and the hostility is great.

• Micah 7:4

  The best of them is like a briar hedge, the upright one worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, your punishment, has come; now will be their confusion.

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