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Nehemiah 11:22
“The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of God.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H6496 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a superintendent (civil, military or religious)
- Derivation
- from H6485 (פָּקַד);
- KJV renderings
- which had the charge, governor, office, overseer, (that) was set.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- פְקִ֤יד — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 13 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 41:34Judges 9:282 Kings 25:192 Chronicles 24:112 Chronicles 31:13
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read פָּקִיד here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.