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דַּחֲוָה

Biblical Aramaic

instr. of music — 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

instr. of music tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דַּחֲוָה: n.f. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. dub.;—pl. abs. דַּחֲוָן Dn 6:19, Vrss conject.; AV RV instr. of music (so AE, assuming meaning strike [strings] for דְּחָא [BH דָּחָה] thrust; Saad RVm dancing-girls; Bertholdt al. concubines (from sens. obsc. of Arabic دَحَى), but then read prob. לְחֵנָן (5:2, 3, 23) Marti Prince Dr.

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

Glosses

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

In the verses

Daniel 6:19 · tree →

אֱ֠דַיִן אֲזַ֨ל מַלְכָּ֤א לְהֵֽיכְלֵהּ֙ וּבָ֣ת טְוָ֔ת וְדַחֲוָ֖ן לָא־הַנְעֵ֣ל קָֽדָמ֑וֹהִי וְשִׁנְתֵּ֖הּ נַדַּ֥ת עֲלֽוֹהִי׃

Word for word: then he.went the king to palace his and he.passed.the.night fasting and diversions not he.brought.in before him and sleep his it.fled on him

JPS 1917: Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were diversions brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

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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