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# אֲלַף

Biblical Aramaic

**1,000** — used 4 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

1,000 [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5dc_5b7_5e3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲלַ֑ף: n.m. 1,000 [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5dc_5b7_5e3/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1,000 (= BH II. אֶ֫לֶף);—abs. א׳ (n. pers. precedes) Dn 5:1; n. om., emph. אַלְפָּא v 1 the thousand (just mentioned); cstr. + pl. abs. אֶ֫לֶף אֲלָפִ֯ים Dn 7:10 a thousand thousands (אַלְפִין K§ 51, 2).

### Jastrow 1903

אֲלַף I

**The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. O. Ex. XXXVIII, 25 אַלַּף ed. Berl. (Y. אלפא); a. fr.—Snh. 95ᵇ חד א׳ one thousand. Bekh. 8ᵇ מאה א׳ זוזי one hundred thousand zuz; a. fr.—Pl. אַלְפִין, אַלְפַיָּא. Targ. Ex. XXXVIII, 26; a. fr. Targ. I Sam. XVIII, 8; a. fr.—Y. Dem. VII, 26ᵇ bot.; a. fr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.1/#tree)

בֵּלְשַׁאצַּ֣ר מַלְכָּ֗א עֲבַד֙ לְחֶ֣ם רַ֔ב לְרַבְרְבָנ֖וֹהִי אֲלַ֑ף וְלָקֳבֵ֥ל אַלְפָּ֖א חַמְרָ֥א שָׁתֵֽה׃

*Word for word:* Belshazzar the king he.made a.feast great for nobles his a.thousand and (to) before the thousand (the) wine \[he.was\].drinking

*JPS 1917:* Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

[Daniel 7:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.10/#tree)

נְהַ֣ר דִּי־נ֗וּר נָגֵ֤ד וְנָפֵק֙ מִן־קֳדָמ֔וֹהִי אֶ֤לֶף אַלְפִין֙ יְשַׁמְּשׁוּנֵּ֔הּ וְרִבּ֥וֹ רִבְבָ֖ן קָֽדָמ֣וֹהִי יְקוּמ֑וּן דִּינָ֥א יְתִ֖ב וְסִפְרִ֥ין פְּתִֽיחוּ׃

*Word for word:* a.river (diy).of fire \[was\].flowing and coming.out from before him a.thousand of.thousands they were.ministering.to.him and a.myriad of.myriads before him they.were.standing the court it.sat and books they.were.opened

*JPS 1917:* A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him; thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5dc_5b7_5e3.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5dc_5b7_5e3/): 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).