Overseer
פָּקִידStrong’s H6496paqid (pa-qid)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Paqid is the Hebrew word usually translated “overseers”, “overseer” and “officer”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.”
Meaning
- Commissioner, deputy, overseer, officer
How it's translated
- overseers 3
- overseer 2
- an officer 2
- deputy his 1
- and officer of 1
- and overseer 1
- and overseer of 1
- the overseer 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 4
- Jeremiah 3
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Genesis 1
- Judges 1
- 2 Kings 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 9:28And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serve him?
- 2 Kings 25:19And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king’s presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city:
- 2 Chronicles 24:11Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king’s office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the high priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
- 2 Chronicles 31:13And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
- Nehemiah 11:9And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer: and Judah the son of Senuah was second over the city.
- Nehemiah 11:14And their brethren, mighty men of valour, an hundred twenty and eight: and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of one of the great men.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּקִיד paqid · overseer
commissioner, deputy, overseer, officer
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “overseer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OVERSEE'R, noun
- One who overlooks; a superintendent; a supervisor.
- An officer who has the care of the poor or of an idiot, etc.
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.