Lexical Summary pithgam: an edict, decree Original Word: פִתְגָּםTransliteration: pithgam Phonetic Spelling: (pith-gawm') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: an edict, decree Meaning: an edict, decree Strong's Concordance decree, sentence Of Persian origin; a (judicial) sentence -- decree, sentence. Brown-Driver-Briggs H6599. pithgam מִּתְגָּם noun masculine edict, decree (Persian loan-word, Old Persian patigâma (patigam, come to, arrive), New Persian paigâm, message; see GildemZKM iv. 214 MeyEntstehung 23; Aramaic מִּתְגָּמָא, word, command, Biblical Aramaic = Biblical Hebrew); — construct ׳פ הַטֶּלֶךְ Esther 1:20; with Genitive object ׳פ הָרָעָה מַעֲשֵׂה Ecclesiastes 8:11 (apparently f., compare De; but Hi AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 115 read נַעֲשֶׂה for נַעֲשָׂה). |
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