King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H6599
Transliteration: pithgam
Phonetic Spelling: (pith-gawm')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: an edict, decree
Meaning: an edict, decree
Word 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).