What is the Strong's number for Paqad?

The Strong's number for Paqad (פָּקַד) is H6485. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Paqad (Strong’s H6485): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Paqad mean?

Paqad (פָּקַד, Strong's H6485) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc. The King James Bible translates it as appoint, × at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up, look, make, × by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the) oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, × surely, visit, want.

Paqad (פָּקַד) is the Hebrew word numbered H6485 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc. In the King James Bible it is translated appoint, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge.

פָּקַד

pâqad · Hebrew

Strong’s H6485 · paw-kad'

Original wordפָּקַד
Transliterationpâqad
Pronunciationpaw-kad'
Part of speech(v n-m)
Strong’s numberH6485
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

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

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

appoint, × at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up, look, make, × by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the) oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, × surely, visit, want. (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Paqad appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Paqad (H6485) stands behind 304 English renderings in 270 verses across 28 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Numbers (103), Jeremiah (49), Exodus (18).

How the King James Bible renders Paqad, by count

numbered103 of 304 (34 percent)
visit34 of 304 (11 percent)
punish27 of 304 (9 percent)
visited18 of 304 (6 percent)
number14 of 304 (5 percent)
appoint10 of 304 (3 percent)

Three places to read Paqad

Genesis 21:1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
Numbers 16:29 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.
Psalms 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Paqad in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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