6599. pithgam

Lexicon

pithgam: edict, sentence

Original Word: פִתְגָּם
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: pithgam
Pronunciation: pit-gawm'
Phonetic Spelling: (pith-gawm')
KJV: decree, sentence
NASB: edict, sentence
Word Origin: [of Persian origin]

1. a (judicial) sentence

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

decree, sentence

Of Persian origin; a (judicial) sentence -- decree, sentence.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of foreign origin
Definition
an edict, decree
NASB Translation
edict (1), sentence (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מִּתְגָּם noun masculine edict, decree (Persian loan-word, Old Persian patigâma (patigam, come to, arrive), New Persian paigâm, message; see Gildem^{ZKM iv. 214} Mey^{Entstehung 23}; Aramaic מִּתְגָּמָא, word, command, Biblical Aramaic = Biblical Hebrew); — construct הַטֶּלֶךְ ׳פ Esther 1:20; with Genitive object מַעֲשֵׂה הָרָעָה ׳פ Ecclesiastes 8:11 (apparently f., compare De; but Hi Albr^{ZAW xvi (1896), 115} read נַעֲשֶׂה for נַעֲשָׂה).

Forms and Transliterations

פִּתְגָ֨ם פִתְגָ֔ם פתגם fitGam piṯ·ḡām p̄iṯ·ḡām pitGam piṯḡām p̄iṯḡām

Englishman's Concordance

Esther 1:20
HEB: וְנִשְׁמַע֩ פִּתְגָ֨ם הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ אֲשֶֽׁר־
NAS: When the king's edict which
KJV: And when the king's decree which he shall make
INT: is heard edict the king's which

Ecclesiastes 8:11
HEB: אֵין־ נַעֲשָׂ֣ה פִתְגָ֔ם מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה הָרָעָ֖ה
NAS: Because the sentence against an evil
KJV: Because sentence against an evil work
INT: is not executed the sentence deed an evil

2 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 6599
2 Occurrences

p̄iṯ·ḡām — 1 Occ.
piṯ·ḡām — 1 Occ.