מֹאזְנֵא

Biblical Aramaic

scale — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

scale tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֹאזַנְיָא: n.m.emph. scale, balance tree →

The whole BDB entry

(Baer Gi Str) n.m.emph. scale, balance (cf.also Mand. מוזאניא NöM 148, Egyptian Aramaic מוזנא S-C G 24, Chr-Pal. ܡܘܙܢܝܐ SchulthLex. 5 NöBSW 56 JacobZAW xxii (1902), 90);—Dn 5:27 (van d. H. du. emph. מאֹזְנַיָּא, v. K§ 51, 1, Anm. M 33*).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (1).

In the verses

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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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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