Pekod

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noble; rulers
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


PEKOD.—Probably the Bab. [Note: Babylonian.] Pukûdu, a people settled in Lower Babylonia, possibly of Aramæan race (Eze_23:23, Jer_50:21). Their seat was near the mouth of the Uknu River.
C. H. W. Johns.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

("visitation".) Jer_50:21. Symbolical name for Babylon as doomed to be visited with judgment. In Eze_23:23 simply a prefecture. Maurer translated, as descriptive epithets subjoined to "all the Chaldaeans," Pekod (pakid), Shoa, Koa, "prefects, rich, princely." Otherwise, if a symbolical name here also, Pekod is "inflicter of," "visiting with, judgment," namely, upon Judah, "Aholibah."
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.

Pe'kod. (visitation). An appellative applied to the Chaldeans. Jer_50:21; Eze_23:23 Authorities are undecided as to the meaning of the term.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863

pē?kod (פּקוד, peḳōdh): A name applied in Jer_50:21 and Eze_23:23 to the Chaldeans. Various English Versions of the Bible (margins) in the former passage gives the meaning as ?visitation.?

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

Pekod
(Heb.Pekod', פְּקוֹד, visitation),a symbolical appellative applied to the Chaldaeans in Jeremiah 1, 21, and to the Chaldaeans in Eze_23:23, in the latter of which passages it is connected with Shoa and Koa, as if these three were in some way subdivisions of “the Babylonians and all the Chaldaeans.” Authorities are undecided as to the meaning of the term. It is regularly formed from the root pcakd, “to visit,” and in its secondary senses means “to punish,” and “to appoint a ruler:” hence Pekod may be applied to Babylon in Jeremiah 1 as significant of its impending punishment, as in the margin of the A.V. “visitation.” But this sense will not suit the other passage, and hence Gesenius here assigns to it the meaning of “prefect” (Thesaur. p. 1121), as if it were but another form of pakid. It certainly is unlikely that the same word would be applied to the same object in two totally different senses. Hitzig seeks for the origin of the word in the Sanscrit bhavan, “noble” — Shoa and Koa being respectively “prince” and “lord;” and he explains its use in Jeremiah 1 as a part for the whole. The Sept. treats it as the name of a district (Φακούκ; Alex. Φούδ) in Ezekiel, and as a verb (ἐκδίκησον) in Jeremiah. Fiirst, however, remarks (Heb. Lex. s.v.) that the name is selected in Jeremiah by assonance with פָּקִד, to punish (1, 18), and , פְּקֻדָּה(1, 27, 31), while the association in Ezekiel shows it must have been a people. Hence he suggests the Poetyrians of Herodotus (3:93; 7:67), and the city of Pekod in the Talmud (Jerus. Nedarim, 10), both in Babylonia. SEE KOA.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.

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