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פְּקִדֻת

pe.qi.dut

oversight

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Strong’s H6488Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

the guard1

In the text

Jeremiah 37:13פְּקִדֻת
But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”

Brown-Driver-Briggs

פְּקִדֻת n.f. oversight;—Je 37:13 sentinel.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.