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# אֵימְתָנִי

Biblical Aramaic

**fear-inspiring, powerful. to be strong** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### Jastrow 1903

אֶמְתָנִי: fear-inspiring, powerful. to be strong; [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5de_5b0_5ea_5b8_5e0_5b4_5d9/#m1)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (v. preced.) fear-inspiring, powerful. Dan. VII, 7 (quot. Gen. R. s. 44 אימ׳; Ex. R. s. 25 אימתנו; Lev. R. s. 13 אימ׳ a. אמ׳; Yalk. Gen. 77; Yalk. Lev. 536 אמ׳). \[Ges. H. Dict. אֶמְתָּנִי, not found in editions, fr. מתן to be strong; cmp., however, אֵמְתָן a. אֵימְתָן.\] \[Edit. Letteris, Berl. 5644 a. m., אֵימְתָנִי.\]

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: none; Jastrow: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 7:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.7/#tree)

בָּאתַ֣ר דְּנָה֩ חָזֵ֨ה הֲוֵ֜ית בְּחֶזְוֵ֣י לֵֽילְיָ֗א וַאֲר֣וּ חֵיוָ֣ה רְֽבִיעָאָ֡ה דְּחִילָה֩ וְאֵֽימְתָנִ֨י וְתַקִּיפָ֜א יַתִּ֗ירָא וְשִׁנַּ֨יִן דִּֽי־פַרְזֶ֥ל לַהּ֙ רַבְרְבָ֔ן אָֽכְלָ֣ה וּמַדֱּקָ֔ה וּשְׁאָרָ֖א בְּרַגְלַ֣הּ רָפְסָ֑ה וְהִ֣יא מְשַׁנְּיָ֗ה מִן־כָּל־חֵֽיוָתָא֙ דִּ֣י קָֽדָמַ֔יהּ וְקַרְנַ֥יִן עֲשַׂ֖ר לַֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* after this seeing I.was in the.visions of the.night and lo! a.beast fourth \[was\].terrible and terrible and strong exceedingly and teeth (diy).of iron \[were\].to it great \[it.was\].devouring and \[it.was\].shattering and the rest with foot its \[it.was\].trampling and it \[was\].different from all the beasts which \[were\].before it and horns ten \[were\].to it

*JPS 1917:* After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet; and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5de_5b0_5ea_5b8_5e0_5b4_5d9.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5de_5b0_5ea_5b8_5e0_5b4_5d9/): 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).