Quick Definition
punishment
Strong's Definition
visitation (in many senses, chiefly official)
Derivation: feminine passive participle of H6485 (פָּקַד);
KJV Usage: account, (that have the) charge, custody, that which...laid up, numbers, office(-r), ordering, oversight, [phrase] prison, reckoning, visitation.
TWOT Reference: 1802a
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
פְּקֻדָּה (pe.qud.dah) — punishment. 1) oversight, care, custody, mustering, visitation, store 1a) visitation, punishment 1b) oversight, charge, office, overseer, class of officers 1c) mustering 1d) store
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun f · פקד
See
muster = action by which humans carefully observe a relatively large group of people or objects, ► with the purpose of determining their number, establishing whether everyone is present, or, in the case of an army, to get to know their fighting strength
Know
notice, providence literally: muster; hence: = action by which deities take notice of the misfortune or suffering of (other) humans and intervene in order to help
Chastise
punishment literally: notice; hence: = action by which deities or humans inflict a penalty on other deities, humans, animals, or objects, usually as retribution for an offence
ISA 10:3 · JER 8:12 · JER 10:15 · JER 11:23 · JER 23:12 · JER 46:21 · JER 48:44 · JER 50:27 · JER 51:18 · HOS 9:7 · MIC 7:4
Space | Objects | ≈ יִתְרָה
stores, savings literally: muster; hence: = objects that are placed in a relatively safe location
Role
office, position literally: placement; hence: = a certain responsibility or position of authority with regards to an object, a group of people, or an entire land or nation
Control
charge, oversight, duty literally: office, position; hence: = a specific task assigned to people
NUM 3:32 · NUM 3:36 · NUM 4:16 · NUM 4:16 · 1CH 24:3 · 1CH 24:19 · 1CH 26:30 · 2CH 24:11 · ISA 60:17 · EZK 44:11
Prisons
Collocation: בֵּית פְּקֻדֹּת
prison literally: house of charge; hence: = place where criminals or other prisoners were confined
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
פְּקֻדָּה 32 n.f. oversight, mustering, visitation, store base