פְּקֻדָּה
visitation
also: oversight, care, custody, mustering fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 24 times (75%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 3 times (9%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 3 times (9%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 2 times (6%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 32 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6486 appears — 31 distinct verses across 11 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 4 verses
- Numbers 3:32 פְּקֻדַּ֕ת n c fs cs Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the charge of the sanctuary.
- Numbers 3:36 וּ/פְקֻדַּ֣ת conj + n c fs cs The appointed charge of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,
- Numbers 4:16 וּ/פְקֻדַּ֞ת פְּקֻדַּ֗ת conj + n c fs cs n c fs cs "The charge of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the charge of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings."
- Numbers 16:29 וּ/פְקֻדַּת֙ conj + n c fs cs If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Yahweh hasn't sent me.
2 Kings 1 verse
1 Chronicles 4 verses
- 1 Chronicles 23:11 לִ/פְקֻדָּ֖ה prep + n c fs Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah didn't have many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning.
- 1 Chronicles 24:3 לִ/פְקֻדָּתָ֖/ם prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.
- 1 Chronicles 24:19 פְקֻדָּתָ֞/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp This was the ordering of them in their service, to come into the house of Yahweh according to the ordinance [given] to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him.
- 1 Chronicles 26:30 פְּקֻדַּ֣ת n c fs cs Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, men of valor, one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Yahweh, and for the service of the king.
2 Chronicles 4 verses
- 2 Chronicles 17:14 פְקֻדָּתָ֖/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp This was the numbering of them according to their fathers' houses: Of Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him mighty men of valor three hundred thousand;
- 2 Chronicles 23:18 פְּקֻדֹּ֜ת n c fp cs Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Yahweh under the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of Yahweh, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.
- 2 Chronicles 24:11 פְּקֻדַּ֣ת n c fs cs It was so, that whenever the chest was brought to the king's officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the chief priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
- 2 Chronicles 26:11 פְּקֻדָּתָ֔/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, who went out to war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
Job 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
Isaiah 3 verses
- Isaiah 10:3 פְּקֻדָּ֔ה n c fs What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?
- Isaiah 15:7 וּ/פְקֻדָּתָ֔/ם conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away over the brook of the willows.
- Isaiah 60:17 פְקֻדָּתֵ/ךְ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2fs For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron. I will also make your officers peace, and righteousness your ruler.
Jeremiah 9 verses
- Jeremiah 8:12 פְּקֻדָּתָ֛/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 10:15 פְּקֻדָּתָ֖/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
- Jeremiah 11:23 פְּקֻדָּתָֽ/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp and there shall be no remnant to them: for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
- Jeremiah 23:12 פְּקֻדָּתָ֖/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 46:21 פְּקֻדָּתָֽ/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.
- Jeremiah 48:44 פְּקֻדָּתָ֖/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 50:27 פְּקֻדָּתָֽ/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
- Jeremiah 51:18 פְּקֻדָּתָ֖/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
- Jeremiah 52:11 הַ/פְּקֻדֹּ֖ת ptcl def.art + n c fp He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 9:1 פְּקֻדּ֣וֹת n c fp cs Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause you them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.
- Ezekiel 44:11 פְּקֻדּוֹת֙ n c fp Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.
Hosea 1 verse
Micah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, פקדה (pᵉquddâh) means “visitation.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “visitation” in the King James Version, “punishment” (Berean Standard Bible) and “oversight of” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It turns up in 31 verses across 11 books, a moderately common footprint. The word gravitates to Jeremiah (29%), then Numbers and 1 Chronicles. Not a single-sense word: its full sense range also takes in “oversight”, “care”, and “custody”. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6486 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 31
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 31 distinct verses.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,086
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,086 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 31 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Jeremiah 9 verses 29%
- Numbers 4 verses 13%
- 1 Chronicles 4 verses 13%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 31 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 17 verses · 55%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 10 verses · 32%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Visitation 12×, Office 3×
- American Standard Version: Visitation 10×, Charge 2×, Officers 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Punishment 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Oversight of 5×, Visitation 4×, Punishment 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6486 across 30 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6486 across 30 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6486 across 30 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6486 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
9 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 9 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. visitation:
- a. = punishment Ho 9:7; Is 10:3; Mi 7:4; Ez 9:1; Nu 16:29 (P), especially in (שְׁנַת)עֵת פְּקֻדָּתָם Je 8:12; 10:15 + 6 times Je (cf. עֵת c. פָּקַד 6:15; 49:8; 50:31), בֵּית הַפּ׳ = prison 52:11. e.g. Hosea 9:7
- b. gracious visitation, providence Jb 10:12. e.g. Job 10:12
- 2.
- a. oversight, charge Nu 4:16 (P), also 3:36 (P; redund.), 1 Ch 26:30; = office 2 Ch 23:18. e.g. Numbers 4:16
- b. overseer (abstr. for concr.), 2 K 11:18; Ez 44:11 (c. אֶל rei), Nu 3:32 (P); coll. = magistracy Is 60:17 (LagBN 151), cf. 2 Ch 24:11. e.g. 2 Kings 11:18
- c. class of officers 1 Ch 23:11; 24:3, 19. e.g. 1 Chronicles 23:11
- d. charge = thing entrusted Nu 4:16 (P). e.g. Numbers 4:16
- 3. mustering 2 Ch 17:14; 26:11. e.g. 2 Chronicles 17:14
- 4. store, things laid up, Is 15:7 ψ 109:8 (perhaps; Hup WeSkizzen vi. 184 al. office). e.g. Isaiah 15:7
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. oversight, mustering, visitation, store;—abs. פ׳ Ho 9:7; 1 Ch 23:11; cstr. פְּקֻדַּת Nu 3:32 +; sf. פְּקֻדָּתוֹ 109:8, etc.; pl. פְּקֻדּ(וֹ)ת Je 52:11 +;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פקד (pâqad) (H6485) — to visit.
Forms in the corpus
The 26 distinct written forms H6486 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6486, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- מפקד miphqâd H4662 appointment
- פקדון piqqâdôwn H6487 store
- פקוד piqqûwd H6490 statute
- פקיד pâqîyd H6496 officer
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 26 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 31 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Numbers 3:32
- 2 Kings 11:18
- 1 Chronicles 23:11
- 2 Chronicles 17:14
- Job 10:12
- Isaiah 10:3
- Jeremiah 10:15
- Ezekiel 9:1
- Hosea 9:7
- Micah 7:4
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
