Original Language Studio
Numbers 4:16
“And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H6486 · Hebrew
- Definition
- visitation (in many senses, chiefly official)
- Derivation
- feminine passive participle of H6485 (פָּקַד);
- KJV renderings
- account, (that have the) charge, custody, that which...laid up, numbers, office(-r), ordering, oversight, [phrase] prison, reckoning, visitation.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- פְקֻדַּ֞ת — common noun, feminine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 32 times in the Hebrew Bible.Numbers 3:32Numbers 3:36Numbers 16:292 Kings 11:181 Chronicles 23:11
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 פְּקֻדָּה 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.