Edict
פִּתְגָּםStrong’s H6599pitgam (pit-gam)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pitgam is the Hebrew word usually translated “decree of” and “sentence of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.”
Meaning
- Edict, decree
How it's translated
- decree of 1
- sentence of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
פִּתְגָּם pitgam · edict
edict, decree Aramaic equivalent: pit.gam (פִּתְגָם "edict" H6600)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “edict” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
E'DICT, noun
[Latin edictum, from edico, to utter or proclaim; e and dico, to speak.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.