דְּנָה

Biblical Aramaic

this — used 58 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

דְּנָה: demonstr. pr. comm. this tree →

The whole BDB entry

demonstr. pr. comm. this (Zinj. זן, זנה; Egyptian Aramaic זנה (S-CPap. B 17 +); זנך (ib.C 6, D 8); Nab. Palm. דנה (Lzb 264 Cooke 26); 𝔗 דֵּין (e.g. 1 S 10:27) and (with הָ, i.e. הָא, ܗܳܐ ecce) הָדֵין; Aramaic of Têma הא זא (Cooke 195. 198); Syriac ܗܳܢܳܐ (contr. for הָֽדְנָא); Mand. האזין; Sab. ذن (HomChrest. 13); Ethiopic ዝንቱ: all from [דֶּה,] זה, + demonstr. n (WCG 108 f.); fem. Biblical Aramaic דָּא, 𝔗 דָּא, הָדָה, Syriac ܗܳܕܶܐ, Mand. האזא, Ethiopic ዛቲ without the n; the pl. is אִלֵּין, q.v.);—this: Dn 2:18 רָזָא דְנָה this secret, v 28, 29, 30 +, Ezr 4:11; 5:3, 4, 9 +; כָּל־דְּנָה Dn 5:22. אַחֲרֵי דְנָה after this †Dn 2:29, 45; so בָּאתַר דְּנָה †7:6, 7. כִּדְנָה like this, thus, †Je 10:11 (= Heb. כֹּה), Dn 2:10 מִלְּתָא כִדְנָה a word like this (cf.כָּזֹאת Est 4:14), Da 3:29 Ezr 5:7. עַל־דְּנָה on account of this †Dn 3:16; Ezr 4:22; 5:5, 17; 6:11; as conj. = therefore (cf.Heb. עַל־זֹאת) Ezr 4:14, 15.—Vid. also קֳבֵל and קַדְמָה.

Jastrow 1903

דְּנָה: which tree →

The whole Jastrow entry

v. v. דֵּן. = דַּאֲנָא which I. Y. Pes. V, 32ᶜ bot. (Y. Taan. III, 67ᵃ bot. דאנא).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 23 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: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: this (54); of this (2); [is] this (1).

In the verses

Daniel 2:36 · tree →

דְּנָ֣ה חֶלְמָ֔א וּפִשְׁרֵ֖הּ נֵאמַ֥ר קֳדָם־מַלְכָּֽא׃

Word for word: this [was].the dream and interpretation its we.will.tell before the king

JPS 1917: This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

Daniel 5:25 · tree →

וּדְנָ֥ה כְתָבָ֖א דִּ֣י רְשִׁ֑ים מְנֵ֥א מְנֵ֖א תְּקֵ֥ל וּפַרְסִֽין׃

Word for word: and this [is].the writing which it.was.inscribed mene mene teqel and pharsin

JPS 1917: And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN.

On Mova

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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