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# אֱנָשׁ

Biblical Aramaic

**man** — used 25 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

man [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b1_5e0_5b8_5e9_5c1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱנָשׁ: n.m. man, mankind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b1_5e0_5b8_5e9_5c1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. man, mankind;—abs. א׳ Dn 2:10 +; emph. אֲנָשָׁא v 38 +, so Qr 4:13, 14 (\> Kt אנושׁא K§ 57 f); so Nab. אנוש often Lzb 222 Cooke 219 SAC 22): pl. אֲנָשִׁים 4:14 (Hebraism, M 53\* proposes אֲנָשָׁא);— man, human being, Dn 2:10; 3:10; 4:13; 5:5, 7(×2); 6:13(×2); 7:4(×2), 8; Ezr 6:11; so בַּר־אֱנָשׁ Dn 7:13 a son of man, human being (v. especially Dr Dn 102; DBSon of Man). coll. men, people, Ezr 4:11; Dn 4:14 a. 22(×2), 29(×2), 30; 5:21, cf.pl. 4:14; זְרַע א׳ 2:43 i.e. human off-spring; בְּנֵי אֲנָשָׁא sons of men, = men, 2:38; 5:21.

### Jastrow 1903

אֱינָשׁ: being human being people [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b1_5e0_5b8_5e9_5c1/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (אנש, sec. r. of אוּשׁ; h. being, esp. human being Dan. II, 10, a. fr. אנש.—Ib. VII, 13 בר א׳ son of man (in Talm. freq. בר נש). Targ. O. Lev. XIII, 2; a. fr.—Y. Snh. VIII, 25ᵃ bot., a. fr. כאי׳ דמר as if one says. Y. Ber. VIII, 12ᵃ bot. אֲנָשָׁא רבא a great man. Shebu. 22ᵇ; a. fr.—Pl. אֵינָשִׁין, const. אֵינָשֵׁי. Targ. O. Gen. VI, 4; a. e.—אִינְשִׁין, אִינְשֵׁי. Targ. Y. ibid.; a. e.—In Talm. mostly אִינְשֵׁי people. B. Kam. 92ᵇ אמרי א׳ (text רבנן, corr. acc.). Snh. 95ᵇ היינו דאמרי א׳ (abbr. ה"דא"א) this is what people say, it is a common saying (proverb). Ibid. 103ᵃ; a. v. fr.—Git. 45ᵃ אִינְשִׁין (our people?).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 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 (1 candidates); Jastrow: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of (the) (8); person (6); (the) (4).

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.13/#tree)

לִבְבֵהּ֙ מִן־אֲנָשָׁ֣א יְשַׁנּ֔וֹן וּלְבַ֥ב חֵיוָ֖ה יִתְיְהִ֣ב לֵ֑הּ וְשִׁבְעָ֥ה עִדָּנִ֖ין יַחְלְפ֥וּן עֲלֽוֹהִי׃

*Word for word:* heart its away.from (the) humankind let.it.be.changed and.\[the\] heart of.an.animal let.it.be.given to it and seven times let.them.pass over it

*JPS 1917:* Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.

[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

## In Targum Onkelos

Number 117 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 50 times there, in the forms אֱנַשׁ (50).

[Leviticus 19:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.11/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

לָא תִּגְנְבוּן וְלָא תְכַדְבוּן וְלָא תְשַׁקְרוּן אֱנַשׁ בְּחַבְרֵהּ

לֹ֖א תִּגְנֹ֑בוּ וְלֹא־תְכַחֲשׁ֥וּ וְלֹֽא־תְשַׁקְּר֖וּ אִ֥ישׁ בַּעֲמִיתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* not you.will.steal and not you.will.deceive and not you.will.deal.falsely anyone with his.fellow citizen

*JPS 1917:* Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie one to another.

[Deuteronomy 27:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.27.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.27.14/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וִיתִיבוּן לֵוָאֵי וְיֵימְרוּן לְכָל אֱנַשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל קָלָא רָמָא

וְעָנ֣וּ הַלְוִיִּ֗ם וְאָֽמְר֛וּ אֶל־כָּל־אִ֥ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל ק֥וֹל רָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.will.answer the Levites and they.will.say to every person of.Israel a.voice high

*JPS 1917:* And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b1_5e0_5b8_5e9_5c1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b1_5e0_5b8_5e9_5c1/): 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).