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אֱסָר

Biblical Aramaic

interdict — used 7 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

interdict tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱסָר: n.m. interdict tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. interdict (as binding);—א׳ abs. Dn 6:8, 13, 16; cstr. v 13; emph. אֱסָרָא v 9, 10, 14.

Jastrow 1903

אֱסָר

The whole Jastrow entry

, v. אֵיסָר

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (15 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (3); a prohibition (2); prohibition (1).

In the verses

Daniel 6:10 · tree →

כָּל־קֳבֵ֖ל דְּנָ֑ה מַלְכָּא֙ דָּֽרְיָ֔וֶשׁ רְשַׁ֥ם כְּתָבָ֖א וֶאֱסָרָֽא׃

Word for word: as to because this the king Darius he.signed the writing and the prohibition

JPS 1917: Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict.

Daniel 6:9 · tree →

כְּעַ֣ן מַלְכָּ֔א תְּקִ֥ים אֱסָרָ֖א וְתִרְשֻׁ֣ם כְּתָבָ֑א דִּ֣י לָ֧א לְהַשְׁנָיָ֛ה כְּדָת־מָדַ֥י וּפָרַ֖ס דִּי־לָ֥א תֶעְדֵּֽא׃

Word for word: now O king you.will.establish the prohibition and you.will.sign the writing that not to change according to.the.law of.[the].Medes and.[the] Persians which not it.will.pass.away

JPS 1917: Now, O king, establish the interdict, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.'

On Mova

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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