Pekod

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("visitation".)  Jeremiah 50:21. Symbolical name for Babylon as doomed to be visited with judgment. In  Ezekiel 23:23 simply a prefecture. Maurer translated, as descriptive epithets subjoined to "all the Chaldaeans," Ρekod ( Pakid ), Shoa , Κoa , "prefects, rich, princely." Otherwise, if a symbolical name here also, Pekod is "inflicter of," "visiting with, judgment," namely, upon Judah, "Aholibah."

Morrish Bible Dictionary

This name occurs in connection with Babylon, andis 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.'  Jeremiah 50:21 . In  Ezekiel 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.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

PEKOD. Probably the Bab. [Note: Babylonian.] Pukûdu , a people settled in Lower Babylonia, possibly of Aramæan race (  Ezekiel 23:23 ,   Jeremiah 50:21 ). Their seat was near the mouth of the Uknu River.

C. H. W. Johns.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Pe'kod. (Visitation). An appellative applied to the Chaldeans.  Jeremiah 50:21;  Ezekiel 23:23 Authorities are undecided as to the meaning of the term.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Jeremiah 50:21 Ezekiel 23:23

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Jeremiah 50:21 Ezekiel 23:23

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb.Pekod', פְּקוֹד , Visitation ) ,A symbolical appellative applied to the Chaldaeans in Jeremiah 1, 21, and to the Chaldaeans in  Ezekiel 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).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

pē´kod ( פּקוד , peḳōdh ): A name applied in   Jeremiah 50:21 and   Ezekiel 23:23 to the Chaldeans. Various English Versions of the Bible (margins) in the former passage gives the meaning as "visitation."