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# אִילָן

Biblical Aramaic

**tree** — used 6 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

tree [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b4_5d9_5dc_5b8_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִילָן: n.m. tree [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b4_5d9_5dc_5b8_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (D 138) n.m. Dn 4:7 tree (𝔗 אִילָן, Syriac ܐܻܝܠܳܢ; cf.BH אֵלָה, אֵלוֹן, p. 18);—abs. א׳ Dn 4:7; emph. -נָא v 8, 11, 17, 20, 23.

### Jastrow 1903

אִילָּן: oak tree. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b4_5d9_5dc_5b8_5df/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (cmp. b. h. אֵלוֹן oak, v. אֵלָה) tree. Shebi. I, 1, a. e. שדה הא׳ a field containing at least three trees within a distance of a S’ah (v. סְאָה). Ib. 3 א׳ סרק bearing no edible fruit, opp. א׳ מאכל.—Pes. 112ᵃ (prov.) אם בקשת וכ׳ if you desire to be strangled, be hanged on a large tree, (if you must refer to an authority, select a good one).—Pl. אִילָּנוֹת, const. אִילָּנֵי. Shebi. I, 2. Gen. R. s. 16; a. fr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (5); a tree (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.7/#tree)

וְחֶזְוֵ֥י רֵאשִׁ֖י עַֽל־מִשְׁכְּבִ֑י חָזֵ֣ה הֲוֵ֔ית וַאֲל֥וּ אִילָ֛ן בְּג֥וֹא אַרְעָ֖א וְרוּמֵ֥הּ שַׂגִּֽיא׃

*Word for word:* and the.visions of my.head on bed my seeing I.was and lo! a.tree in the.midst of the.land and height its \[was\].great

*JPS 1917:* Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.

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

רְבָ֥ה אִֽילָנָ֖א וּתְקִ֑ף וְרוּמֵהּ֙ יִמְטֵ֣א לִשְׁמַיָּ֔א וַחֲזוֹתֵ֖הּ לְס֥וֹף כָּל־אַרְעָֽא׃

*Word for word:* it.grew.great the tree and it.grew.strong and height its it.reached to the heavens and the.sight of.it \[was\].to the.end of.all the land

*JPS 1917:* The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b4_5d9_5dc_5b8_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b4_5d9_5dc_5b8_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).