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To reckon

פָּקַדStrong’s H6485

paqad (pa-qad)

Appears in 269 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Paqad is the Hebrew word usually translated “enrolled their”, “visit” and “enrolled of”. It appears in 269 verses of the Old Testament.

“Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.”
Zechariah 10:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. To attend to, muster, number, reckon, visit, punish, appoint, look after, care for(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Piel) to muster, call up
  2. Musterings, expenses
How it's translated
  • enrolled their 20
  • and i will visit 18
  • and enrolled their 13
  • enrolled of 10
  • to enrolled their 9
  • he will visit 8
  • he enrolled 7
  • he had appointed 7

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Numbers 90
  • Jeremiah 45
  • Isaiah 16
  • 1 Samuel 15
  • Exodus 12
  • 2 Kings 11

28 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 269 verses, by book
Leviticus 3
6:418:2526:16
Deuteronomy 2
5:920:9
Joshua 2
8:1010:18
Ruth 1
1:6
1 Chronicles 3
21:623:2426:32
Ezra 1
1:2
Nehemiah 2
7:112:44
Esther 1
2:3
Proverbs 1
19:23
Lamentations 1
4:22
Ezekiel 2
23:2138:8
Amos 2
3:23:14
Zephaniah 5
1:81:91:122:73:7
Zechariah 2
10:311:16
Hebrew dictionary

פָּקַד paqad · to reckon

: list/count 1) to attend to, muster, number, reckon, visit, punish, appoint, look after, care for 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to pay attention to, observe 1a2) to attend to 1a3) to seek, look about for 1a4) to seek in vain, need, miss, lack 1a5) to visit 1a6) to visit upon, punish 1a7) to pass in review, muster, number 1a8) to appoint, assign, lay upon as a charge, deposit 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be sought, be needed, be missed, be lacking 1b2) to be visited 1b3) to be visited upon 1b4) to be appointed 1b5) to be watched over 1c) (Piel) to muster, call up …

פְּקוּדִים pequdim · reckoning

musterings, expenses

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “reckon” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

RECKON, verb transitive

rek'n. [Latin rego, rectus, whence regnum, regno, Eng. to reign and right.]

  1. To count; to number; that is, to tell the particulars.“The priest shall reckon to him the money, according to the years that remain, even to the year of jubilee, and it shall be abated” Leviticus 27:18
  2. To esteem; to account; to repute. Romans 8:18
  3. To repute; to set in the number or rank of.“He was reckoned among the transgressors” Luke 22:37
  4. To assign in an account. rom. 4.
All definitions and other forms of “reckon”
  1. to compute; to calculate.

RECK'ON, verb intransitive

  1. To reason with one's self and conclude from arguments.“I reckoned till morning, that as a lion, so will he break all my bones” Isaiah 38:13
  2. To charge to account; with on.
  3. To pay a penalty; to be answerable; with for.
  4. To reckon with, to state an account with another, compare it with his account, ascertain the amount of each and the balance which one owes to the other.“After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them” Matthew 25:19
  5. To call to punishment.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.