מְגִלָּה

Biblical Aramaic

roll — 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

roll tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְגִלָּה: n.f. roll tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. (book-) roll (𝔗 BH);—Ezr 6:2.

Jastrow 1903

מְגִלָּה: roll, scroll, volume, part of Sh’ma Hallel M’gillah M’gilloth tree →

The whole Jastrow entry

roll, scroll, volume, part of a סֵפֶר. Treat. Sof’rim V, 9 אין עושין שמע (או)הלל מ׳ וכ׳ you must not prepare the section of Sh’ma or of Hallel as a special volume for children; Gitt. 60ᵃ מהו לכתוב מ׳ וכ׳, v. לָמַד; Yoma 37ᵇ. Gitt. l. c. תורה מ׳ מ׳ ניתנה the Pentateuch was published in sections, opp. חתומה. Deut. R. s. 8 תחלה קורא במ׳ when beginning, the student reads (the Pentateuch) in a detached scroll, opp. בספר.—Y. Shek. V, 49ᵃ; Yoma 38ᵃ; Cant. R. to III, 6 מְגִלַּת ס(מ)מנין a volume containing prescriptions for frankincense; a. fr.—מ׳ יוחסין, מ׳ סתרים מגלת אסתר, &c., v. respect. determinants.—Pl. מְגִלּוֹת, מְגִילּוֹת. Cant. R. l. c. היו מוסרין מְגִילּוֹתָם וכ׳ they handed over their rolls (containing the prescriptions) one to the other; (Y. Shek. l. c. את המגלה הזאת).—Esp. (הַ)מְּגִלָּה = מגלת אסתר, a. אֶסְתֵּר. Meg. I, 1. Ib. 19ᵃ מ׳ נקראת ספר the book of Esther is called a book and also a letter. Ib., sq. הקורא במ׳ הכתובה בין וכ׳ he who recites from a Book of Esther as written among the Hagiographa (instead of using a special scroll); a. v. fr.—M’gillah, name of a treatise of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Babli a. Y’rushalmi, treating chiefly of the Festival of Purim.—M’gilloth, the five books: Esther, Ruth, Canticum, Lamentations and Koheleth.

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 (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates)

Glosses

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

In the verses

Ezra 6:2 · tree →

וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֣ח בְּאַחְמְתָ֗א בְּבִֽירְתָ֛א דִּ֛י בְּמָדַ֥י מְדִינְתָּ֖ה מְגִלָּ֣ה חֲדָ֑ה וְכֵן־כְּתִ֥יב בְּגַוַּ֖הּ דִּכְרוֹנָֽה׃פ

Word for word: and it.was.found in Ecbatana in the citadel which [is].in Media the province a.scroll one and as.follows it.was.written in midst its (the) memorandum

JPS 1917: And there was found at Ahmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus written: 'A record.

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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