א

«א» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: Aleph — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 799 times · Key: lemma:א

Glosses

king (137); God (29); the.heavens (25)

Jastrow 1903

א: Aleph tree →

The whole Jastrow entry

Aleph, the first letter of the alphabet, interchanging with other gutturals, e.g. אבב, הבב, חבב, עבב; אליתא, עליתא &c.

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: none; Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «א» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Daniel 4:25

כֹּ֣לָּא מְּטָ֔א עַל־נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֖ר מַלְכָּֽא׃פ

Word for word: (the) everything it.came on Nebuchadnezzar the king

JPS 1917: All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.

Daniel 5:27

תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה בְמֹֽאזַנְיָ֖א וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ חַסִּֽיר׃

Word for word: teqel you.have.been.weighed in the scales and you.have.been.found lacking

JPS 1917: TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

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