פָּקַד paqad

Hebrew word for “to reckon” · Strong’s H6485 · used 303 times in 269 verses

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Meaning

: list/count; 1) to attend to, muster, number, reckon, visit, punish, appoint, look after, care for;

Senses in the lexicon

• to reckon: list (127)
• to reckon: overseer (54)
• to reckon: punish (51)
• to reckon: visit (47)
• to reckon: missing (19)
• to reckon: put (4)
• reckoning (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for paqad in context, with how often each is used:

• enrolled men 60
• will visit judgment 18
• enrolled 16
• will visit 16
• mustered 14
• those enrolled 9
• appointed 9
• will appoint 7
• had appointed 7
• will enroll 6
• appoint 5
• have visited 5

Where it is used

Also in 16 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 1 (21), Numbers 2 (18), Numbers 4 (17), Numbers 26 (17), Numbers 3 (9), 1 Samuel 20 (4), 1 Kings 20 (4), Jeremiah 51 (4), Exodus 30 (3), Exodus 38 (3)

Forms

• פקד 37
• פקדיהם 20
• ויפקד 20
• ופקדתי 20
• יפקד 17
• פקודי 14
• ופקדיהם 13
• הפקדים 12
• הפקיד 10
• אפקד 10

Words used with it

Words that share verses with paqad more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 65
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 64
• צָבָא tsava “Hosts” 37
• מִשְׁפָּחָה mishpachah “family” 29
• חֲמִשִּׁים chamishshim “fifty” 20
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 22
• אֵלֶּה elleh “these” 26
• מַעַל maal “above” 17
• שֵׁשׁ shesh “six” 18
• אַרְבַּע arba “four” 18
• נְאֻם neum “utterance” 18
• עָוֺן avan “iniquity” 16

Key verses

The verses using paqad that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 50:24 — And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and…
• Exodus 20:5 — Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto…
• Exodus 34:7 — Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers…
• Leviticus 26:16 — I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart:…
• Psalms 17:3 — Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
• Isaiah 10:12 — Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart…
• Isaiah 26:21 — For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no…
• Isaiah 27:1 — In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall…
• Isaiah 62:6 — I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
• Ezekiel 38:8 — After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many…
• Hosea 2:13 — And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after…
• Amos 3:2 — You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.