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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Pekod (Babylon)
Not a person. Pekod is a tribal or regional name in southern Babylonia, the Puqudu of Assyrian and Babylonian records, and both Jeremiah and Ezekiel bring it into their oracles against Babylon.
Not a person. Pekod is a tribal or regional name in southern Babylonia, the Puqudu of Assyrian and Babylonian records, and both Jeremiah and Ezekiel bring it into their oracles against Babylon.
Pekod is not a person but a tribal or regional name in southern Babylonia, corresponding to the Puqudu people known from Assyrian and Babylonian records. Jeremiah and Ezekiel both invoke it in judgment oracles against Babylon, likely playing on its similarity to the Hebrew word for “punishment” (Jeremiah 50:21; Ezekiel 23:23).
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- Jeremiah 50:21
- Ezekiel 23:23
