dura

«dura» in Mova's judaism dictionary: The name of a plain in Babylon where King Nebuchadnezzar… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

The name of a plain in Babylon where King Nebuchadnezzar set up a giant gold statue. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Daniel, Dura is where Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah refused to bow to the image. Interpretation: Tradition praises the three friends as heroes who chose to die rather than worship an idol.

examples

• Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. (Writings DAN.3.1, JPS 1917) tree →

note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

Trees and pragmatics

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