Word

פִּתְגָּם

pithgâm · H6599 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

statement, decree, report, sentence

An official statement that obliges people to behave according to its rules or directives

Examples
Esther 1:20 “When the king’s edict which he will make is heard throughout his kingdom, great as it is, then all women will give honor to their husbands, great and small.”
Ecclesiastes 8:11 Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of mankind among them are fully given to do evil.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מֶלֶךְking 1
מַעֲשֶׂהwork, deed 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

עָשָׂהto do, to make 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 3 words

דָּת dâth · H1881 · law: דָּת (‘decree, law’) and the target lexeme both denote authoritative pronouncements or decrees, functioning as near-synonyms in the legal-decree sense.
צַו tsav · H6673 · command, precept, tsade tsade qoph qoph: The target lexeme (‘decree, sentence’) and צַו (‘commandment, precept’) both denote authoritative legal directives, and are near-synonyms within that semantic space.
חֵקֶק chêqeq · H2711 · task, customs, practices: חֵקֶק (chêqeq, H2711) spans cognitive and legislative domains (appears in Think, Act, Laws, Quantity, Space, Time), suggesting decrees or engraved statutes with a conceptual breadth; פִּתְגָּם (pithgâm, H6599) is narrowly judicial/administrative (Laws only), denoting a formal pronouncement or sentence.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Laws002003003016: פִּתְגָּם denotes a decree or sentence, as of the king's edict to be heard throughout his kingdom in Esther 1:20, and the sentence against an evil deed not executed quickly in Ecclesiastes 8:11.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

פִּתְגָּםpithgâm · H6599פִּתְגָּם pithgâm · H6600 · answer, letter, matter · 6×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6599. pithgam מִּתְגָּם noun masculine edict, decree (Persian loan-word, Old Persian…

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 Est 1:20; with Genitive object ׳פ הָרָעָה מַעֲשֵׂה Ecc 8:11 (apparently f., compare De; but Hi AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 115 read נַעֲשֶׂה for נַעֲשָׂה).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Laws2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0