לָא

Biblical Aramaic

not — used 82 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

not tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָא: adv. not tree →

The whole BDB entry

(לָה †Dn 4:32) adv. not (BH לא; Aramaic of Têma, Egyptian, etc., לא; Nerab ל (Lzb 301 CookGl. 67); 𝔗 לָא; Syriac ܠܴܐ );—not Je 10:11; Dn 2:5, 9, 10, etc.; before a ptcp. (so rarely in BH, 1 b c), 2:27, 43; 3:16; 4:4, 6, 15 +, so v 32 וְכָל־דָּאְרֵי אַרְעָא כְּלָה חֲשִׁיבִין are as men not accounted of (so Bev Behrm Marti, cf. Is 53:3 𝔗 בסירין ולא חשׁיבין; > most ‘accounted as nothing,’ for which no analogy, yet cf. ψ 39:6 𝔗); sq. אִיתַי, v. אִיתַי. With inf. and לְ Dn 6:9 דִּי לָא לִהַשְׁנָיָה which it is not to alter = which is not to be altered (cf. v 16), Ezr 6:8 (K§ 67, 1 Dr§ 202, 2; cf. Is 35:6 𝔗, DAramaic Dialektproben, p. 1). With interr. הֲלָא †Dn 3:24; 4:27; 6:13.

Jastrow 1903

לָא I

The whole Jastrow entry

Targ. Gen. II, 5; a. v. fr.—Pes. 10ᵇ מקמיה … אין בתר … לא before the time when it is forbidden, yes (he must search after leavened bread); after the time, no (he must not search). Ib. לא שנא there is no difference; a. v. fr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 17 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 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 (27 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: not (79); not? (3).

In the verses

Daniel 3:11 · tree →

וּמַן־דִּי־לָ֥א יִפֵּ֖ל וְיִסְגֻּ֑ד יִתְרְמֵ֕א לְגֽוֹא־אַתּ֥וּן נוּרָ֖א יָקִֽדְתָּֽא׃

Word for word: and whoever that not he.will.fall.down and he.will.pay.homage he.will.be.thrown to the.midst of.the.furnace of the.fire (the) burning

JPS 1917: and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

Daniel 5:22 · tree →

וְאַ֤נְתְּ בְּרֵהּ֙ בֵּלְשַׁאצַּ֔ר לָ֥א הַשְׁפֵּ֖לְתְּ לִבְבָ֑ךְ כָּל־קֳבֵ֕ל דִּ֥י כָל־דְּנָ֖ה יְדַֽעְתָּ׃

Word for word: and you son his O.Belshazzar not you.have.brought.low heart your as to because that all this you.knew

JPS 1917: And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this;

In Targum Onkelos

Number 3 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 1413 times there, in the forms לָא (1036); וְלָא (373); לָּא (3); וִלָא (1).

Exodus 22:17 · tree → · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

חָרָשָׁא לָא תָחֵי:

מְכַשֵּׁפָ֖ה לֹ֥א תְחַיֶּֽה׃ס

Word for word: a.sorceress not you.will.let.live

JPS 1917: Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.

Numbers 26:11 · tree → · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וּבְנֵי קֹרַח לָא מִיתוּ

וּבְנֵי־קֹ֖רַח לֹא־מֵֽתוּ׃ס

Word for word: and the.sons of.Korah not they.died

JPS 1917: Notwithstanding the sons of Korah died not.

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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