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# אׇסְפַּרְנָא

Biblical Aramaic

**thoroughly** — used 7 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

thoroughly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5c7_5e1_5b0_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e0_5b8_5d0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָסְפַּרְנָא: adv. thoroughly with (all) diligence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5c7_5e1_5b0_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e0_5b8_5d0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adv. thoroughly, RV. with (all) diligence (Zend aspĕre, asperenõ, Pers. siparī, asperī, all complete, Castell \[1669\], Thes Haug JBW 1853, 154 LagSem. i. 48 AndrMarti, Gl 53\* ScheftMGWJ 1903, 415 (correcting Arisches im AT. 73 f.));—Ezr 5:8 א׳ מִתְעַבְדָא, 6:8, 12, 13; 7:17, 21, 26 (cf.Old Aramaic אספרן, on a weight, complete, correct: Lzb 223, Cooke 193).

### Jastrow 1903

\*אָסְפַּרְנָא: to run quickly, diligently. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5c7_5e1_5b0_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e0_5b8_5d0/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (√פר to run, cmp. אַדְרַזְדָּא) quickly, diligently. Ezra V, 8; a. e.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: diligently (7).

## In the verses

[Ezra 6:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.13/#tree)

אֱ֠דַיִן תַּתְּנַ֞י פַּחַ֧ת עֲבַֽר־נַהֲרָ֛ה שְׁתַ֥ר בּוֹזְנַ֖י שְׁתַ֥ר בּוֹזְנַ֖י וּכְנָוָתְה֑וֹן לָקֳבֵ֗ל דִּֽי־שְׁלַ֞ח דָּרְיָ֧וֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֛א כְּנֵ֖מָא אָסְפַּ֥רְנָא עֲבַֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* then Tattenai the.governor of.the.region.beyond the river Shethar-Bozenai Shethar-Bozenai and associates their (to) before that he.had.sent Darius the king accordingly diligently they.did

*JPS 1917:* Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their companions, because that Darius the king had thus sent, acted with all diligence.

[Ezra 7:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.17/#tree)

כָּל־קֳבֵ֣ל דְּנָה֩ אָסְפַּ֨רְנָא תִקְנֵ֜א בְּכַסְפָּ֣א דְנָ֗ה תּוֹרִ֤ין ׀ דִּכְרִין֙ אִמְּרִ֔ין וּמִנְחָתְה֖וֹן וְנִסְכֵּיה֑וֹן וּתְקָרֵ֣ב הִמּ֔וֹ עַֽל־מַדְבְּחָ֔ה דִּ֛י בֵּ֥ית אֱלָהֲכֹ֖ם דִּ֥י בִירוּשְׁלֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* as to because this diligently you.will.buy with the silver this bulls rams lambs and their.grain offerings and their.drink offerings and you.will.offer them on the altar (diy).of the.house of your.God which \[is\].in Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* therefore thou shalt with all diligence buy with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meal-offerings and their drink-offerings, and shalt offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5c7_5e1_5b0_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e0_5b8_5d0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5c7_5e1_5b0_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e0_5b8_5d0/): 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).