פִּתְגָּם
pitgam · decree, edict
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6599 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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pitgam (פִּתְגָּם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “decree, edict”.
Decree, sentence: what the king decides and orders to be published (a word of Persian origin).
How to say it
pit·gam
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- What a king or judge decides and orders carried out.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- sentence ×1
- when the decree ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Esther 1:20
And when the decree of the king that he makes is heard in all his kingdom, for it is great, all the women will give honor to their husbands, from the great to the small.”
- Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because the sentence against the evil work is not carried out quickly, therefore the heart of human beings is full in them to do evil.