Edict
פִּתְגָםStrong’s H6600pitgam (pit-gam)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pitgam is the Aramaic word usually translated “word the”, “command the” and “affair”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.”
Meaning
- Command, work, affair, decreeword, report · decree
How it's translated
- word the 3
- command the 2
- affair 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 4
- Daniel 2
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 4:17In contextThis matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
- Ezra 4:17Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time.
- Ezra 5:7They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.
- Ezra 5:11And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
- Ezra 6:11Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
Aramaic dictionary
פִּתְגָם pitgam · edict
1) command, work, affair, decree 1a) word, report 1b) decree
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.