Biblical Aramaic dictionary
The alphabet
The 100 commonest words
- א used 799 times
Aleph - וְ used 731 times
and - הוּא used 579 times
he - לְ used 378 times
to - דִּי used 345 times
who - בְּ used 226 times
prep. in, with, through - מֶלֶךְ used 180 times
king - מִן used 121 times
from - עַל used 104 times
upon - אֱלָהּ used 95 times
god - כֹּל used 82 times
the whole - לָא used 82 times
not - אֲמַר used 71 times
say - הוה used 71 times
come to pass - כְּ used 63 times
like - דְּנָה used 58 times
this - ה used 58 times
interrogative particle - אֱדַיִן used 57 times
then - מַלְכוּ used 57 times
royalty - דָּנִיֵּאל used 52 times
Daniel - יְדַע used 47 times
know - בַּיִת used 44 times
house - קֳדָם used 42 times
before - שָׁמַיִן used 38 times
heavens - עֲבַד used 35 times
make - עַד used 35 times
even to - קוּם used 35 times
arise - טְעֵם used 33 times
taste - פְּשַׁר used 33 times
interpretation - חֲזָה used 31 times
see - נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר used 31 times
Nebuchadnezzar - עֲנָה used 30 times
answer - קֳבֵל used 29 times
front - יְהַב used 28 times
give - בַּר used 27 times
son - יְרוּשְׁלֵם used 26 times
Jerusalem - עֲבֵד used 26 times
slave - שׂים used 26 times
set - אֱנָשׁ used 25 times
man - בָּבֶל used 25 times
Babylon - מִלָּה used 24 times
word - דְּהַב used 23 times
gold - רַב used 23 times
great - בְּנָה used 22 times
build - חֵלֶם used 22 times
dream - עִם used 22 times
with - אֲרַע used 21 times
earth - גְּבַר used 21 times
man - שׁנה used 21 times
sleep - חֵיוָה used 20 times
declare - עָלַם used 20 times
perpetuity - פַּרְזֶל used 20 times
iron - שְׁכַח used 18 times
find - אִיתַי used 17 times
there is - יַד used 17 times
hand - נוּר used 17 times
fire - צְלֵם used 17 times
image - אֲנָה used 16 times
I - אֲתָה used 16 times
come - אַנְתָּה used 16 times
thou - הֵן used 16 times
if - יוֹם used 16 times
day - דָּרְיָוֶשׁ used 15 times
Darius - נְהַר used 15 times
river - עַם used 15 times
people - אִלֵּךְ used 14 times
these - דָּת used 14 times
decree - חֲוָה used 14 times
declare - חַד used 14 times
one - חַכִּים used 14 times
wise man - מֵישַׁךְ used 14 times
Meshak - מָה used 14 times
what? - עֲבַר used 14 times
region across - עֲלַל used 14 times
go in - קֶרֶן used 14 times
horn - רֵאשׁ used 14 times
head - שְׁלַח used 14 times
send - שַׁדְרַךְ used 14 times
Shadrach - שׇׁלְטָן used 14 times
dominion - גֹּוא used 13 times
midst - דֵּךְ used 13 times
this - הֵיכַל used 13 times
palace - כְּסַף used 13 times
silver - כְּעַן used 13 times
now - עִדָּן used 13 times
time - קַדִּישׁ used 13 times
holy - שַׂגִּיא used 13 times
great - בעה used 12 times
ask - זְמַן used 12 times
time - חֱזוּ used 12 times
vision - יְכִל used 12 times
be able - כְּתָב used 12 times
writing - סְגִד used 12 times
do homage - רמה used 12 times
cast - שְׁאָר used 12 times
rest - שֻׁם used 12 times
name - תְּלָת used 12 times
three - בְּהַל used 11 times
alarm - מְדִינָה used 11 times
district - נְפַל used 11 times
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Where the words come from
The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).
The same words on Mova free, with the whole entries and the trees of their meanings: the Biblical Aramaic dictionary.
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