Pekod
Pekod
(Heb.Pekod’, , 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 (; Alex. ) in Ezekiel, and as a verb () in Jeremiah. Fiirst, however, remarks (Heb. Lex. s.v.) that the name is selected in Jeremiah by assonance with , to punish (1, 18), and , (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.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Pekod
probably a place in Babylonia (Jer. 50:21; Ezek. 23:23). It is the opinion, however, of some that this word signifies “visitation,” “punishment,” and allegorically “designates Babylon as the city which was to be destroyed.”
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Pekod
(“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.”
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Pekod
PEKOD.Probably the Bab. [Note: Babylonian.] Pukdu, a people settled in Lower Babylonia, possibly of Araman race (Eze 23:23, Jer 50:21). Their seat was near the mouth of the Uknu River.
C. H. W. Johns.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Pekod
pekod (, pekodh): 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.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Pekod
[Peko’d]
This name occurs in connection with Babylon, and is supposed to be a symbolical name, signifying ‘visitation’ or ‘punishment,’ associated with the name of Merathaim, signifying ‘of the rebels,’ or ‘double rebellion.’ That is, that Babylon should be visited by God ‘because of its rebellion.’ Jer 50:21. In Eze 23:23 Pekod appears more as a proper name; but it is again associated with Babylon, and the three names Pekod, Shoa, and Koa are all judged to be symbolical names.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Pekod
H6489
Name for Chaldea.
Jer 50:21; Eze 23:23
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Pekod
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.