צְפַר

Biblical Aramaic

bird — used 4 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

bird tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִפַּר: n.f. bird tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. Dn 4:18 (cf. K. p. 165, Anm. 3 bird (v. BH 11. צפר);—pl. abs. צִפֲּרִין Dn 4:30, emph. צִפְּרַיָּא v 11, cstr. צִפֲּרִי v 9, 18.

Jastrow 1903

צְפַר I: to be bright to be swift to be shrill to whistle tree →

The whole Jastrow entry

(cmp. צָפָה) [to be bright; denom. צַפְרָא; (of movement) to be swift; denom. צִפּוֹר, צָפִיר &c., (of sound) to be shrill,] to whistle. Y. Ḥag. II, 77ᵈ bot. אין צַפְרִית חד זמן וכ׳ when I whistle once, put your garments on &c.; ib. 78ᵃ top [read:] אית בי עבד אנא צ׳ תרין צפרין … תמנין וכ׳ I can do (this); I can whistle twice and bring up eighty young men for you &c.; Y. Snh. VI, 23ᶜ bot. אי בי עביד נא צ׳ תרין זמנין וכ׳.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 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, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (16 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the birds (2); birds (1); the (1).

In the verses

Daniel 4:18 · tree →

וְעָפְיֵ֤הּ שַׁפִּיר֙ וְאִנְבֵּ֣הּ שַׂגִּ֔יא וּמָז֨וֹן לְכֹ֖לָּא־בֵ֑הּ תְּחֹת֗וֹהִי תְּדוּר֙ חֵיוַ֣ת בָּרָ֔א וּבְעַנְפ֕וֹהִי יִשְׁכְּנָ֖ן צִפֲּרֵ֥י שְׁמַיָּֽא׃

Word for word: and foliage its [was].beautiful and fruit its [was].plentiful and food for.all [was].on it under it it.dwelt the.animal[s] of the.field and in branches its they.dwelt the.birds of the.heavens

JPS 1917: whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was food for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation;

Daniel 4:11 · tree →

קָרֵ֨א בְחַ֜יִל וְכֵ֣ן אָמַ֗ר גֹּ֤דּוּ אִֽילָנָא֙ וְקַצִּ֣צוּ עַנְפ֔וֹהִי אַתַּ֥רוּ עָפְיֵ֖הּ וּבַדַּ֣רוּ אִנְבֵּ֑הּ תְּנֻ֤ד חֵֽיוְתָא֙ מִן־תַּחְתּ֔וֹהִי וְצִפְּרַיָּ֖א מִן־עַנְפֽוֹהִי׃

Word for word: [he.was].proclaiming with power and as.follows [he.was].saying cut.down! the tree and cut.off! branches its strip.off! foliage its and scatter! fruit its let.it.flee the animal[s] from under it and the birds from branches its

JPS 1917: He cried aloud, and said thus: Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

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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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