עִיר

Biblical Aramaic

waking — 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

waking tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִיר: n.m. waking wakeful, one angel tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. waking, or wakeful, one, i.e. angel (√ עיר, cf. Syriac ܥܳܪ wake, ܥܺܝܪ waking (PS 2843), JAram עִיר, NH עֵיר adj. awake);—abs. ע׳ Dn 4:10, 20; pl. abs. עִירִין v 14; Aq Symm. ἐγρήγορος; cf. CharlesEnoch i, 5; xxxix. 12; also p. 356 Drad loc.; doubtful is the connex. with Ph. Zophesemim (Euseb.Praep. Evang. 10), i.e. צפי שמים watchers of heaven, as keeping watch over or spying out (ZimKAT3. 629 JeremAT im Licht d. AO 63).

Jastrow 1903

עִיר I: guardian, angel ʿir awake tree →

The whole Jastrow entry

(עוּר) guardian, angel. Midr. Till. to Ps. CXVIII, 8 ולא ירד עמו לא ע׳ ולא שרף וכ׳ ed. Bub. (oth. ed. לא ע׳ ולא קדיש, borrowed from Dan. IV, 10) nor went down with him (Abraham) a guardian, or Seraph, or angel. Ib. to Ps. 1 (play on עיר, Gen. XI, 4) ואין ע׳ אלא אלוה ʿir means a deity (ref. to Dan. l. c.).—Pl. עִירִין. Pes. 33ᵃ (quot. fr. Dan. IV, 14) בגזירת ע׳ וכ׳ by the decree of the guardians (scholars) the word (is established) &c., i.e. they have so decided at college.—[עִיר awake, v. עוּר ch.]

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (26 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a watcher (2); of watchers (1).

In the verses

Daniel 4:10 · tree →

חָזֵ֥ה הֲוֵ֛ית בְּחֶזְוֵ֥י רֵאשִׁ֖י עַֽל־מִשְׁכְּבִ֑י וַאֲלוּ֙ עִ֣יר וְקַדִּ֔ישׁ מִן־שְׁמַיָּ֖א נָחִֽת׃

Word for word: seeing I.was in the.visions of my.head on bed my and lo! a.watcher and a.holy.[one] from the heavens [was].coming.down

JPS 1917: I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven.

Daniel 4:14 · tree →

בִּגְזֵרַ֤ת עִירִין֙ פִּתְגָמָ֔א וּמֵאמַ֥ר קַדִּישִׁ֖ין שְׁאֵֽלְתָ֑א עַד־דִּבְרַ֡ת דִּ֣י יִנְדְּע֣וּן חַ֠יַּיָּא דִּֽי־שַׁלִּ֨יט עִלָּאָ֜ה בְּמַלְכ֣וּת אֲנָשָׁ֗אוּלְמַן־דִּ֤י יִצְבֵּא֙ יִתְּנִנַּ֔הּ וּשְׁפַ֥ל אֲנָשִׁ֖ים יְקִ֥ים עֲלַֽהּ׃

Word for word: [is].by.[the] decree of.watchers the command and [is.by.the].word of.holy.[ones] the affair to [the].cause (of).that they.will.know the.living [people] (diy).that [is].having.mastery the.Most High over the.kingdom of.(the) humankind and to whomever whom he.will.be.pleased he will.give.it and a.lowly.[one] of.humankind he.will.set.up over it

JPS 1917: The matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the sentence by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will, and setteth up over it the lowest of men.

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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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