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עֳפִי

Biblical Aramaic

leafage — 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

leafage tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֳפִי: n.m. leafage, foliage tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. Dn 4:9 leafage, foliage;—sf. עָפְיֵהּ Dn 4:9, 11, 18.

Jastrow 1903

עֳפִי: sprouting, foliage, branches tree →

The whole Jastrow entry

(preced.) sprouting, foliage, branches. Targ. Cant. I, 16 (fr. Dan. IV, 18. Targ. Ez. XXXI, 3 עָפְיֵיה Regia (ed. נוֹפֵיה).—Pl. עַפְיָין. Targ. Cant. II, 2 עַפְיָהָא.—V. אוּפֵי.

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

Glosses

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

In the verses

Daniel 4:18 · tree →

וְעָפְיֵ֤הּ שַׁפִּיר֙ וְאִנְבֵּ֣הּ שַׂגִּ֔יא וּמָז֨וֹן לְכֹ֖לָּא־בֵ֑הּ תְּחֹת֗וֹהִי תְּדוּר֙ חֵיוַ֣ת בָּרָ֔א וּבְעַנְפ֕וֹהִי יִשְׁכְּנָ֖ן צִפֲּרֵ֥י שְׁמַיָּֽא׃

Word for word: and foliage its [was].beautiful and fruit its [was].plentiful and food for.all [was].on it under it it.dwelt the.animal[s] of the.field and in branches its they.dwelt the.birds of the.heavens

JPS 1917: whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was food for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation;

Daniel 4:11 · tree →

קָרֵ֨א בְחַ֜יִל וְכֵ֣ן אָמַ֗ר גֹּ֤דּוּ אִֽילָנָא֙ וְקַצִּ֣צוּ עַנְפ֔וֹהִי אַתַּ֥רוּ עָפְיֵ֖הּ וּבַדַּ֣רוּ אִנְבֵּ֑הּ תְּנֻ֤ד חֵֽיוְתָא֙ מִן־תַּחְתּ֔וֹהִי וְצִפְּרַיָּ֖א מִן־עַנְפֽוֹהִי׃

Word for word: [he.was].proclaiming with power and as.follows [he.was].saying cut.down! the tree and cut.off! branches its strip.off! foliage its and scatter! fruit its let.it.flee the animal[s] from under it and the birds from branches its

JPS 1917: He cried aloud, and said thus: Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

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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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