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VERSE: Nu01-50a

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RULE: The Hebrew root PKD can mean COUNT or APPOINT
(a) PKD in a verse dealing with NUMBERS means to COUNT;
(b) PKD in a verse indicating RESPONSIBILITIES means to APPOINT


EXAMPLES
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(1)Nu03-34  PKD means COUNT since Census Numbers are mentioned (6200)

(2)Nu03-36  PKD means APPOINT since  Responsibilities are mentioned
     "Watch the wood, pillars, sockets"

(3)Nu01-49  PKD means COUNT since the Previous chapter
   Nu01-44:47 mentions the contrast that while NUMBERS were
   produced for other tribes(603,550 total) nevertheless no
   numbers were produced for the Levite tribe

(4)Nu01-50  PKD means APPOINT since  Responsibilities of Levites are
   mentioned thruout Nu01-50:54.
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NOTES
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*1 In the main posting all 6 meanings of PKD are mentioned
It is shown that a unifying meaning to all 6 meanings is to APPOINT
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RULE: The Hebrew root PKD has 6 meanings. The unifying theme
is APPOINTMENT.



{LIST1} {List of meanings of the root PKD, courtesy of RDK}
        {It is suggested but not necessary that the unified
        meaning is APPOINT--this is explored in the footnotes}


EXAMPLE
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                TYPICAL
MEANING         VERSE      TEXT
=======         =====      ====
Remembered *1   Gn21-01    God REMEMBERED Sarah..she gave birth
Missing *2      Nu31-49    And no SOLDIERS were missing
Count  *3       Ex38-21    the ACCOUNTING of Temple(resources)
Command *4      2C31-13    ..on the COMMAND of King Hizkiyah
Appoint *4      Gn40-04    ..he APPOINTED Joseph on his house
A Deposit *5    Gn41-36    DEPOSIT food for the famine years

FOOTNOTES:
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*1 In these footnotes we explore the idea of a unified meaning
of APPOINT--that is to DESIGNATE FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE

The verses with REMEMBER are not any REMEMBERING
like a nostalgia but rather a REMEMBERING FOR A PURPOSE--
AN APPOINTMENT---e.g. Gn21-01 Remembering Sarah to have a baby;
or Jud15-1, Samson remembering to visit his wife for marital
purposes, or Ex20-5 remembering sins of fathers to punish
children when they continue in their path


*2 In the verses using MISSING it is not any MISSING but missing
from an APPOINTED POSITION(1S20-18--David was not at his
appointed place at the Kings table; or 2Sam2-30..so many
soldiers were missing after the battle.



*3 Count is always used in the sense of a military count or an
accounting---it denotes not so much producing a number as
producing an account of which items are at their appointed
places.


*4 COMMAND and APPOINT are related to APPOINT in the obvious way



*5  A DEPOSIT is something DESIGNATED for a specific place or time
Thus the example by Joseph shows APPOINTING A DEPOSIT OF FOOD
for the time of the famine.

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