פִּתְגָם

Biblical Aramaic

command — used 6 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

command tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פִּתְגָם: n.m. command, word, affair tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. Ezr 6:11 command, word, affair (Pers.: v. BH);—abs. פ׳ Dn 3:16; emph. -מָא Ezr 4:17 +;—command Ezr 6:11, word, by missive 5:7, from king 4:17 (both c. שְׁלַח), in answer 5:11 (c. התיב); weakened, thing, affair Dn 3:16; 4:14.

Jastrow 1903

פִּתְגָּם: decree; word; affair, event tree →

The whole Jastrow entry

decree; word; affair, event (= h. דָּבָר). Targ. Num. XXI, 24, a. fr. (כפ׳) לפ׳ דחרב according to the law of war (h. text לפי).—Targ. Is. VIII, 10. Ib. IX, 7. Targ. Deut. XXIV, 1 עֲבֵרַת פ׳ (h. text ערות דבר). Targ. Gen. XX, 10; a. fr.—Pl. פִּתְגָּמִין, פִּתְגָּמַיָּא. Targ. O. Ex. XXXIV, 27; a. fr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 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 without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (5); affair (1).

In the verses

Ezra 5:7 · tree →

פִּתְגָמָ֖א שְׁלַ֣חוּ עֲל֑וֹהִי וְכִדְנָה֙ כְּתִ֣יב בְּגַוֵּ֔הּ לְדָרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֖א שְׁלָמָ֥א כֹֽלָּא׃ס

Word for word: the word they.sent to him and according to.this it.was.written in midst its to Darius the king the peace (the) all

JPS 1917: they sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus: 'Unto Darius the king, all peace.

Daniel 3:16 · tree →

עֲנ֗וֹ שַׁדְרַ֤ךְ מֵישַׁךְ֙ וַעֲבֵ֣ד נְג֔וֹ עֲבֵ֣ד נְג֔וֹ וְאָמְרִ֖ין לְמַלְכָּ֑א נְבֽוּכַדְנֶצַּ֔ר לָֽא־חַשְׁחִ֨ין אֲנַ֧חְנָה עַל־דְּנָ֛ה פִּתְגָ֖ם לַהֲתָבוּתָֽךְ׃

Word for word: they.replied Shadrach Meshach and.Abednego and.Abednego and [they.were].saying to the king O.Nebuchadnezzar not [are].needing we concerning this affair to send back.to.you

JPS 1917: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king: 'O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee in this matter.

On Mova

This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary on Mova free.
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).

This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/aramaic/פתגם/