גִּיר

Biblical Aramaic

chalk — used 1 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

chalk tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גִּיר: chalk, plaster tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.[m.] chalk, plaster (so 𝔗; BH once, p. 162);—emph. גִּירָא Dn 5:5.

Jastrow 1903

גִּיר: lime, plaster. froth, foam. disease, sort of fever ? tree →

The whole Jastrow entry

, lime, plaster. Dan. V, 5.—Targ. O. Ex. XVI, 14 דעדק כג׳ thin and brittle like a coat of lime (h. text מחספס). Targ. Y. Deut. XXVII, 2 (h. text סיד); a. e.—2) froth, foam. Pl. גִּירִין Targ. Y. Ex. XV, 10 ג׳ דימא the foaming billows. [Targ. Jer. IX, 14, read כגידין, v. גִּידָּא II.]—3) name of a disease, a sort of fever (?). Gitt. 69ᵇ, v. next w.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (21 candidates)

Glosses

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

In the verses

Daniel 5:5 · tree →

בַּהּ־שַׁעֲתָ֗ה נְפַ֙קָה֙ אֶצְבְּעָן֙ דִּ֣י יַד־אֱנָ֔שׁ וְכָֽתְבָן֙ לָקֳבֵ֣ל נֶבְרַשְׁתָּ֔א עַל־גִּירָ֕א דִּֽי־כְתַ֥ל הֵיכְלָ֖א דִּ֣י מַלְכָּ֑א וּמַלְכָּ֣א חָזֵ֔ה פַּ֥ס יְדָ֖ה דִּ֥י כָתְבָֽה׃

Word for word: at it the moment they.went.forth fingers (diy).of a.hand of.a.human and [they.were].writing (to) before the candlestick on the plaster (diy).of the.wall of the.palace (diy).of the king and the king [was].seeing the.palm of the.hand which [was].writing

JPS 1917: In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.

On Mova

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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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