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# אֱסָר

Biblical Aramaic

**interdict** — 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

interdict [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b1_5e1_5b8_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱסָר: n.m. interdict [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b1_5e1_5b8_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. interdict (as binding);—א׳ abs. Dn 6:8, 13, 16; cstr. v 13; emph. אֱסָרָא v 9, 10, 14.

### Jastrow 1903

אֱסָר

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , v. אֵיסָר

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (15 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (3); a prohibition (2); prohibition (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.10/#tree)

כָּל־קֳבֵ֖ל דְּנָ֑ה מַלְכָּא֙ דָּֽרְיָ֔וֶשׁ רְשַׁ֥ם כְּתָבָ֖א וֶאֱסָרָֽא׃

*Word for word:* as to because this the king Darius he.signed the writing and the prohibition

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict.

[Daniel 6:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.9/#tree)

כְּעַ֣ן מַלְכָּ֔א תְּקִ֥ים אֱסָרָ֖א וְתִרְשֻׁ֣ם כְּתָבָ֑א דִּ֣י לָ֧א לְהַשְׁנָיָ֛ה כְּדָת־מָדַ֥י וּפָרַ֖ס דִּי־לָ֥א תֶעְדֵּֽא׃

*Word for word:* now O king you.will.establish the prohibition and you.will.sign the writing that not to change according to.the.law of.\[the\].Medes and.\[the\] Persians which not it.will.pass.away

*JPS 1917:* Now, O king, establish the interdict, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b1_5e1_5b8_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b1_5e1_5b8_5e8/): 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).