חַיִל

Biblical Aramaic

power — 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

power tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַ֫יִל: n.m. power, strength, army tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. power, strength, army (v. BH II. חול, חיל);— power: abs. בְּאֶדְרָע וְחָ֑יִל Ezr 4:23 by force and power; קרא בְח׳ i.e. call loudly Dn 3:4, בְּחַיִל 4:11; 5:7; גִּבָּרֵי־ח׳ 3:20 mighty men of power. force, army, sf. חַיְלֵהּ 3:20; cstr. חֵיל שְׁמַיָּא 4:32 (= BH צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם).

Jastrow 1903

חַיִל

The whole Jastrow entry

, v. חַיִיל.—בְּרוֹר חַ׳, v. בְּרוֹר.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 2 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (29 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: power (4); army (1); of power (1).

In the verses

Daniel 3:4 · tree →

וְכָרוֹזָ֖א קָרֵ֣א בְחָ֑יִל לְכ֤וֹן אָֽמְרִין֙ עַֽמְמַיָּ֔א אֻמַּיָּ֖א וְלִשָּׁנַיָּֽא׃

Word for word: and the herald [was].proclaiming with power to you [they.are].saying O peoples (the) nations and (the) languages

JPS 1917: And the herald cried aloud: 'To you it is commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages,

Daniel 3:20 · tree →

וּלְגֻבְרִ֤ין גִּבָּֽרֵי־חַ֙יִל֙ דִּ֣י בְחַיְלֵ֔הּ אֲמַר֙ לְכַפָּתָ֔ה לְשַׁדְרַ֥ךְ מֵישַׁ֖ךְ וַעֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ עֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ לְמִרְמֵ֕א לְאַתּ֥וּן נוּרָ֖א יָקִֽדְתָּֽא׃

Word for word: and to men mighty.men of.power who [were].in army his he.said to bind (et) Shadrach Meshach and.Abednego and.Abednego to throw to the.furnace of the.fire (the) burning

JPS 1917: And he commanded certain mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

On Mova

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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).

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