Deposit
פִּקָּדוֹןStrong’s H6487piqqadon (piq-qa-don)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Piqqadon is the Hebrew word usually translated “store” and “item entrusted”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.”
Meaning
- Deposit, store, supply
How it's translated
- a store 1
- an item entrusted 1
- the item entrusted 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 2
- Genesis 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 6:2If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
- Leviticus 6:4Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
Hebrew dictionary
פִּקָּדוֹן piqqadon · deposit
deposit, store, supply
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “deposit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEPOSIT, verb transitive
- To lay down; to lay; to throw down.
- To lay up; to lay in a place for preservation.
- To lodge in the hands of a person for safe-keeping or other purpose; to commit to the care of; to entrust; to commit to one as a pledge.
- To lay aside.
All definitions and other forms of “deposit”
DEPOSIT, noun
- That which is laid or thrown down; any matter laid or thrown down, or lodged.
- Any thing entrusted to the care of another; a pledge; a pawn; a thing given as security, or for preservation; as, these papers are committed to you as a sacred deposit; he
- A place where things are deposited; a depository.
- A city or town where goods are lodged for safe-keeping or for reshipment.
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.