נִדְבָּךְ

Biblical Aramaic

row — used 2 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

row tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נִדְבָּךְ: n.m. row layer, course tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. row or layer, course (𝔗 NH id.; NH also מִדְבָּךְ id. (LevyNHWB iii. 23), cf. مِدْمَاكٌ as loan-word Frä12; borrowed from Assyrian nadbaku, mountain-slope according to DlPr 150 (cf. BaZA ii. 115 f. HptGN 1883, 96; BASi. 8. 15), but meaning not very suitable NöZMG xl (1886), 733 MeyEntst. J. 46);—abs. נ׳ Ezr 6:4, pl. נִדְבָּכִין v 4.

Jastrow 1903

נִדְבָּךְ: rammed wall mould filled with earth or rubble; block of certain size course of bricks course of stones, layer nidbakh frame bier tree →

The whole Jastrow entry

(דבך = דוך; v. Del. Prol.; v. Del. Prol., p. 150) rammed wall (pisé), a mould filled with earth or rubble; a block of a certain size (four handbreadths cubic measure), or a course of bricks &c., used as ‘binder’ (coagmentum); in gen. a course of stones, layer. Y. Shebi. III, 34ᶜ bot. זה שהוא מקבל נ׳ צריך וכ׳ he who contracts to build nidbakh, must build with blocks of four handbreadths as far as the space contracted for (v. infra). Sabb. 115ᵃ אמר לבנאי שקעהו תחת הנ׳ he said to the builder, sink it (the translation of the Book of Job) under the rubble; Y. ib. XVI, 15ᶜ top. Ber. II, 4 mechanics at work may read the Sh’ma בראש הנ׳ while standing on top of a course of the wall. Sabb. 125ᵇ נ׳ של אבנים a mouldful of stones (v. מִרְבָּךְ); a. fr. a frame carried to the building ground with tools and vessels above and under it. Tosef. Ohol. VII, 1 ארבעה שהיו נושאין את הנ׳ ואין וכ׳ if four persons carry a frame the poles of which have not the size of a plough-handle; Ohol. VI, 1 (ed. Dehr. נדוד; Ar. נרווד, read: נִדְוָךְ, נִדְוָוךְ; Maim. a bier). Zab. V, 2 אצבעו של זב תחת הנ׳ if the gonorrhœist has his finger under the frame (while it is carried).—Pl. נִדְבָּכִין, נִדְבָּכוֹת. Ohol. XIV, 1 שלשה נ׳ וכ׳ a distance of three courses of stones which is twelve handbreadths; Tosef. ib. XIV, 8; Y. Shebi. III, 34ᵈ top. Ib. שלשה נ׳ עשרה וכ׳ three courses of trimmed stones making ten handbreadths, v. סִיתּוּת.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates)

Glosses

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

In the verses

Ezra 6:4 · tree →

נִדְבָּכִ֞ין דִּי־אֶ֤בֶן גְּלָל֙ תְּלָתָ֔א וְנִדְבָּ֖ךְ דִּי־אָ֣ע חֲדַ֑ת וְנִ֨פְקְתָ֔א מִן־בֵּ֥ית מַלְכָּ֖א תִּתְיְהִֽב׃

Word for word: rows (diy).of stone of.rolling three and a.row (diy).of timber new and the expense from the.house of the.king let.it.be.given

JPS 1917: with three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber, and let the expenses be given out of the king's house;

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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