פִּקּוּד
statute
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H6490 appears — 24 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Psalms 24 verses
- Psalms 19:8 פִּקּ֘וּדֵ֤י n c mp cs Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
- Psalms 103:18 פִ֝קֻּדָ֗י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms To those who keep his covenant, To those who remember to obey his precepts.
- Psalms 111:7 פִּקּוּדָֽי/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure.
- Psalms 119:4 פִקֻּדֶ֗י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms You have commanded your precepts, That we should fully obey them.
- Psalms 119:15 בְּ/פִקֻּדֶ֥י/ךָ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms I will meditate on your precepts, And consider your ways.
- Psalms 119:27 פִּקּוּדֶ֥י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
- Psalms 119:40 לְ/פִקֻּדֶ֑י/ךָ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.
- Psalms 119:45 פִקֻּדֶ֣י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms I will walk in liberty, For I have sought your precepts.
- Psalms 119:56 פִקֻּדֶ֣י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms This is my way, That I keep your precepts.
- Psalms 119:63 פִּקּוּדֶֽי/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms I am a friend of all those who fear you, Of those who observe your precepts.
- Psalms 119:69 פִּקּוּדֶֽי/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
- Psalms 119:78 בְּ/פִקּוּדֶֽי/ךָ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
- Psalms 119:87 פִקֻּודֶֽי/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms They had almost wiped me from the earth, But I didn't forsake your precepts.
- Psalms 119:93 פִּקּוּדֶ֑י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms I will never forget your precepts, For with them, you have revived me.
- Psalms 119:94 פִקּוּדֶ֣י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
- Psalms 119:100 פִקּוּדֶ֣י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept your precepts.
- Psalms 119:104 מִ/פִּקּוּדֶ֥י/ךָ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Through your precepts, I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way.
- Psalms 119:110 וּ֝/מִ/פִּקּוּדֶ֗י/ךָ conj + prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms The wicked have laid a snare for me, Yet I haven't gone astray from your precepts.
- Psalms 119:128 פִּקּ֣וּדֵי n c mp cs Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.
- Psalms 119:134 פִּקּוּדֶֽי/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Redeem me from the oppression of man, So I will observe your precepts.
- Psalms 119:141 פִּ֝קֻּדֶ֗י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms I am small and despised. I don't forget your precepts.
- Psalms 119:159 פִקּוּדֶ֣י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.
- Psalms 119:168 פִ֭קּוּדֶי/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, For all my ways are before you.
- Psalms 119:173 פִקּוּדֶ֣י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Let your hand be ready to help me, For I have chosen your precepts.
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.
פקוד (piqqûwd) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “statute.” It clusters heavily in Psalms, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It turns up in 24 verses across 1 book, an uncommon footprint. Scripture first uses it in Psalms 19:8. It clusters with פקד, מפקד and פקדה under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6490 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 →
- 24
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 24 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,327
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,327 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 24 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 24 verses 100%
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 24 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 24 verses · 100%
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: Precepts 18×
- American Standard Version: Precepts 15×
- Berean Standard Bible: Precepts 24×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Precepts 22×, Precepts of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6490 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6490 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 H6490 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6490 across 26 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- precept, statute
Word origin
Derived from פקד (pâqad) (H6485) — to visit.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פָּקוּד
- , pl. פְּקוּדִים(b. h. mustered, included in the census. B. Bath. 121ᵇ (ref. to Num. XIV, 29) מי שפְּקוּדָיו מבן עשרים … שפקודיו וכ׳ every tribe whose members are mustered from twenty years and upward, to the exclusion of the tribe of Levi whose members are enlisted from thirty years. e.g. Numbers 14:29
פִּקּוּד
- , v. sub פִּיקּ׳.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 18 distinct written forms H6490 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.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| פִקּוּדֶ֣י/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 119:94 | 4 |
| פִּקּוּדֶֽי/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 119:63 | 3 |
| פִקֻּדֶ֣י/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 119:45 | 2 |
| בְּ/פִקֻּדֶ֥י/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 119:15 | 1 |
| בְּ/פִקּוּדֶֽי/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 119:78 | 1 |
| וּ֝/מִ/פִּקּוּדֶ֗י/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 119:110 | 1 |
| לְ/פִקֻּדֶ֑י/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 119:40 | 1 |
| מִ/פִּקּוּדֶ֥י/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 119:104 | 1 |
| פִ֝קֻּדָ֗י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 103:18 | 1 |
| פִ֭קּוּדֶי/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 119:168 | 1 |
| פִקֻּדֶ֗י/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 119:4 | 1 |
| פִקֻּודֶֽי/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 119:87 | 1 |
| פִּ֝קֻּדֶ֗י/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 119:141 | 1 |
| פִּקּ֘וּדֵ֤י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 19:8 | 1 |
| פִּקּ֣וּדֵי | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 119:128 | 1 |
| פִּקּוּדֶ֑י/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 119:93 | 1 |
| פִּקּוּדֶ֥י/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 119:27 | 1 |
| פִּקּוּדָֽי/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 111:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6490, 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
- פקדה pᵉquddâh H6486 visitation
- פקדון piqqâdôwn H6487 store
- 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 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 24 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
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.
