א

Biblical Aramaic

Aleph — used 799 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

Jastrow 1903

א: Aleph tree →

The whole Jastrow entry

Aleph, the first letter of the alphabet, interchanging with other gutturals, e.g. אבב, הבב, חבב, עבב; אליתא, עליתא &c.

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: none; Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: king (137); God (29); the heavens (25).

In the verses

Daniel 4:25 · tree →

כֹּ֣לָּא מְּטָ֔א עַל־נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֖ר מַלְכָּֽא׃פ

Word for word: (the) everything it.came on Nebuchadnezzar the king

JPS 1917: All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.

Daniel 5:27 · tree →

תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה בְמֹֽאזַנְיָ֖א וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ חַסִּֽיר׃

Word for word: teqel you.have.been.weighed in the scales and you.have.been.found lacking

JPS 1917: TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

On Mova

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Sources. 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).

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