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# אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפַּן

Biblical Aramaic

**satraps** — used 9 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

satraps [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d7_5b7_5e9_5b0_5c1_5d3_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e4_5b7_5bc_5df/#m1)

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (9).

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.2/#tree)

שְׁפַר֙ קֳדָ֣ם דָּרְיָ֔וֶשׁ וַהֲקִים֙ עַל־מַלְכוּתָ֔א לַאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּ֖א מְאָ֣ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֑ין דִּ֥י לֶהֱוֺ֖ן בְּכָל־מַלְכוּתָֽא׃

*Word for word:* it.seemed.good before Darius and he.appointed over the kingdom (et) the satraps one.hundred and twenty who they.will.be over all the kingdom

*JPS 1917:* It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;

[Daniel 6:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.7/#tree)

אֱ֠דַיִן סָרְכַיָּ֤א וַאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּא֙ אִלֵּ֔ן הַרְגִּ֖שׁוּ עַל־מַלְכָּ֑א וְכֵן֙ אָמְרִ֣ין לֵ֔הּ דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֖א לְעָלְמִ֥ין חֱיִֽי׃

*Word for word:* then the overseers and the satraps these they.came.as.a.crowd to the king and as.follows \[they.were\].saying to him O.Darius the king forever live!

*JPS 1917:* Then these presidents and satraps came tumultuously to the king, and said thus unto him: 'King Darius, live for ever!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d7_5b7_5e9_5b0_5c1_5d3_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e4_5b7_5bc_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d7_5b7_5e9_5b0_5c1_5d3_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e4_5b7_5bc_5df/): 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).