דִּכֵּן

Biblical Aramaic

this — used 3 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

OpenScriptures lexical index

this tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דִּכֵּן: demonstr. pr. comm. this, that tree →

The whole BDB entry

demonstr. pr. comm. this, that; only Dn; Ezr uses דֵּךְ (דֵּךְ + demonstr. affix n, WCG 111);—Dn 2:31 צַלְמָא ד׳, 7:20, 21 קַרְנָא ד׳.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: this (3).

In the verses

Daniel 7:21 · tree →

חָזֵ֣ה הֲוֵ֔ית וְקַרְנָ֣א דִכֵּ֔ן עָבְדָ֥ה קְרָ֖ב עִם־קַדִּישִׁ֑ין וְיָכְלָ֖ה לְהֽוֹן׃

Word for word: seeing I.was and the horn this [was].making war with [the].holy.[ones] and [it.was].prevailing to them

JPS 1917: I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

Daniel 2:31 · tree →

אַ֣נְתְּהמַלְכָּ֗א חָזֵ֤ה הֲוַ֙יְתָ֙ וַאֲל֨וּ צְלֵ֥ם חַד֙ שַׂגִּ֔יא צַלְמָ֨א דִּכֵּ֥ן רַ֛ב וְזִיוֵ֥הּ יַתִּ֖יר קָאֵ֣ם לְקָבְלָ֑ךְ וְרֵוֵ֖הּ דְּחִֽיל׃

Word for word: you O king seeing you.were and lo! an.image one great the image this [was].great and splendor its [was].extraordinary [was].standing (to) before you and appearance its [was].terrible

JPS 1917: Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was surpassing, stood before thee; and the appearance thereof was terrible.

On Mova

This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary on Mova free.
Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

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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