pe.qud.dah denotes assigned oversight or office, and in judgment contexts the punishment or recompense that comes upon people.

The term most often occurs in settings of assigned oversight, service, office, or a designated responsibility; it also marks punishment or recompense when a day, year, or time of judgment comes upon a people or place.

1. Assigned oversight, office, or responsibility · dominant

   In Numbers 4:16, two singular construct forms occur in the statement assigning Eleazar oversight of the tabernacle and its contents; the APB renders the repeated clause as "The oversight of Eleazar" and "the oversight of all the tabernacle." The same administrative setting appears where priests and Levites are placed over the house of the LORD in 2 Kings 11:18, where another takes an office in Psalm 109:8, and where peace and righteousness are appointed as overseer and taskmasters in Isaiah 60:17.

   Numbers 4:16Numbers 3:322 Kings 11:181 Chronicles 24:19Psalm 109:8Isaiah 60:17
2. Punishment or recompense at a time of judgment · common

   In Hosea 9:7 and Isaiah 10:3, the singular absolute form stands in declarations that days or a day of punishment have come. Construct forms repeatedly specify a time, year, or day connected with coming calamity: in Jeremiah 48:44 the APB renders "the year of their punishment," and in Jeremiah 50:27, "the time of their punishment."

   Hosea 9:7Isaiah 10:3Jeremiah 8:12Jeremiah 48:44Jeremiah 50:27Micah 7:4

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the administrative use with terms such as "oversight," "appointments," "office," and "care," while judgment passages use "punishment" or "recompense." These renderings show the clauses' presentation rather than a fixed English equivalent for every occurrence.