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title: פְּקִדֻת — oversight · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פְּקִדֻת (6488), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: oversight. BDB 1906: n.f. oversight. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פְּקִדֻת

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«פְּקִדֻת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **oversight** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 6488 · **BDB:** פְּקִדֻת

### Glosses

of.\[the\].guard (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

oversight [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6488/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. oversight [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6488/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. oversight;—בַּעַל פ׳ Je 37:13 sentinel.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פְּקִדֻת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6488/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 37:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.37.13/)

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וַיְהִי־ה֞וּא בְּשַׁ֣עַר בִּנְיָמִ֗ן וְשָׁם֙ בַּ֣עַל פְּקִדֻ֔ת וּשְׁמוֹ֙ יִרְאִיָּ֔יה בֶּן־שֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֖ה בֶּן־חֲנַנְיָ֑ה וַיִּתְפֹּ֞שׂ אֶֽת־יִרְמְיָ֤הוּ הַנָּבִיא֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר אֶל־הַכַּשְׂדִּ֖ים אַתָּ֥ה נֹפֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and it.was he \[was\].at the.gate of.Benjamin and.\[was\] there a.captain of.\[the\].guard and name his \[was\].Irijah the.son of.Shelemiah the.son of.Hananiah and he.arrested (et) Jeremiah the prophet (cmp) to the Chaldeans you \[are\].falling

*JPS 1917:* And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying: 'Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.'

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