BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6489
pe.qod — Pekod
Pekod = "visitation" a people in the Babylonian army and a tribe in southeast Babylonia bordering Elam Another name of ba.vel (בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל "Babylon" H0894)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →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.”
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
