STRONGS NUMBER H6496


Word Summary
paqid: commissioner, deputy, overseer
Original Word: פֶקִיד
Transliteration: paqid
Phonetic Spelling: (paw-keed')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: commissioner, deputy, overseer
Meaning: commissioner, deputy, overseer
Strong's Concordance
which had the charge, governor, office, overseer, that was set

From paqad; a superintendent (civil, military or religious) -- which had the charge, governor, office, overseer, (that) was set.

see HEBREW paqad

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6496. paqid

מָּקִידnoun masculine commissioner, deputy, overseer; — absolute ׳פJeremiah 20:1 +; construct מְּקִיד2 Chronicles 24:11; Nehemiah 11:22; suffix מְּקִידוֺJudges 9:28; plural מְּקִדִיםGenesis 41:34; Jeremiah 29:26, מְּקִידִים2 Chronicles 31:13; Esther 2:3; — commissioner, for special duty Genesis 41:34 (E), Esther 2:3; permanent deputy of king Judges 9:28, of priest 2 Chronicles 24:11, of Levites 31:13; overseer, one in charge of men, with עַל‎ of soldiers 2 Kings 25:19 = Jeremiah 52:25, Benjamites Nehemiah 11:9, priests 11:14; absolute, without עַל‎, Jeremiah 29:26 (of priest in temple, reading מָּקִיד‎ Vrss. Gie), compare 20:1 (see נָגִיד

3); with suffix of Levites Nehemiah 11:22, singers 12:42.