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פָּקַד pâqad — to visit (with friendly or hostile intent)

pronounced paw-kad' · Strong's H6485 · 304 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 8 stems: Qal (Pa'al), Hiph'il, Niph'al, Hoph'al, Hotpa'al, Hitpa'el, Pu'al, Pi'el

Translated in the KJV as appoint, × at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see.

a primitive root; to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.

pâqad in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 234×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Participle (passive) 80Imperfect (yiqtol) 39Perfect (qatal) 38Sequential perfect (weqatal) 22Wayyiqtol 21Participle (active) 10Infinitive construct 10Imperative 9Infinitive absolute 5

פָּקַ֥ד Gen 21:1 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. (KJV)

וַ֠יִּפְקֹד Gen 40:4 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular

And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward. (KJV)

פָּקֹ֧ד Gen 50:24 Infinitive absolute

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 to Jacob. (KJV)

Hiph'il 29×

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 16Wayyiqtol 5Imperative 3Jussive 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1

וַיַּפְקִדֵ֨הוּ֙ Gen 39:4 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular

And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. (KJV)

הִפְקִ֨יד Gen 39:5 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field. (KJV)

וְיַפְקֵ֥ד Gen 41:34 Jussive, 3rd person masculine singular

Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. (KJV)

Niph'al 21×

Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them

Imperfect (yiqtol) 9Wayyiqtol 5Perfect (qatal) 3Infinitive construct 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive absolute 1Jussive 1

יִפָּקֵ֖ד Num 16:29 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular

If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath not sent me. (KJV)

נִפְקַ֥ד Num 31:49 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us. (KJV)

לְהִפָּקֵ֥ד Judg 21:3 Infinitive construct

And said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel? (KJV)

Hoph'al

Causative · passive — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject has it done to them

Participle (passive) 7Perfect (qatal) 2

הָפְקַ֖ד Lev 5:23 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular
הפקדים 2Kgs 12:12 Participle (passive), masculine plural

And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. (KJV)

הַמֻּפְקָדִ֖ים 2Kgs 22:5 Participle (passive), masculine plural

And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the Lord, to repair the breaches of the house, (KJV)

Hotpa'al

Intensive · passive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject has it done to them

Perfect (qatal) 4

הָתְפָּקְד֖וּ Num 1:47 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural

But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. (KJV)

הָתְפָּקְד֔וּ Num 2:33 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural

But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses. (KJV)

הָתְפָּקְד֗וּ Num 26:62 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural

And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel. (KJV)

Hitpa'el

Intensive · reflexive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it to or for themselves

Wayyiqtol 2Perfect (qatal) 2

וַיִּתְפָּֽקְדוּ֩ Judg 20:15 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine plural

And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men. (KJV)

הִתְפָּֽקְד֗וּ Judg 20:17 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural

And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war. (KJV)

וַיִּתְפָּקֵ֖ד Judg 21:9 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular

For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead there. (KJV)

Pu'al

Intensive · passive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject has it done to them

Perfect (qatal) 2

פֻּקַּ֖ד Exod 38:21 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest. (KJV)

פֻּקַּ֖דְתִּי Isa 38:10 Perfect (qatal), 1st person common singular

I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. (KJV)

Pi'el

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Participle (active) 1

מְפַקֵּ֖ד Isa 13:4 Participle (active), masculine singular

The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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