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# אִגְּרָה

Biblical Aramaic

**letter-missive** — used 3 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

letter-missive [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b4_5d2_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִגְּרָה: n.f. letter-missive [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b4_5d2_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (K§ 50, 3) n.f. letter-missive (late BH אִגֶּ֫רֶת, Old Aramaic אגרת, Palm. אגרתא Lzb207);—abs. א׳ Ezr 4:8 (van d. H. -רָא); emph. אִגַּרְתָּא 4:11; 5:6. אדרגזר

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezra 4:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.8/#tree)

רְח֣וּם בְּעֵל־טְעֵ֗ם וְשִׁמְשַׁי֙ סָֽפְרָ֔א כְּתַ֛בוּ אִגְּרָ֥ה חֲדָ֖ה עַל־יְרוּשְׁלֶ֑ם לְאַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥שְׂתְּא מַלְכָּ֖א כְּנֵֽמָא׃

*Word for word:* Rehum lord of.command and Shimshai the scribe they.wrote a.letter one concerning Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as.follows

*JPS 1917:* Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort —

[Ezra 4:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.11/#tree)

דְּנָה֙ פַּרְשֶׁ֣גֶן אִגַּרְתָּ֔א דִּ֚י שְׁלַ֣חוּ עֲל֔וֹהִי עַל־אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֖שְׂתְּא מַלְכָּ֑א עַבְדָ֛יךְאֱנָ֥שׁ עֲבַֽר־נַהֲרָ֖ה וּכְעֶֽנֶת׃פ

*Word for word:* this \[is\].(the).copy of the.letter which they.sent to him to Artaxerxes the king servants your the.man of.the.region.beyond the river and now

*JPS 1917:* this is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king — thy servants the men beyond the River — and now

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b4_5d2_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b4_5d2_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b8_5d4/): 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).