Oversight
פְּקִדֻתStrong’s H6488peqidut (pe-qi-dut)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Peqidut is the Hebrew word usually translated “guard”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“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 took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.”
Meaning
- Oversight, overseer, guard
How it's translated
- guard 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
פְּקִדֻת peqidut · oversight
oversight, overseer, guard
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “oversight” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
O'VERSIGHT, noun
- Superintendence; watchful care. 1 Peter 5:2
- Mistake; an overlooking; omission; error.
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.