[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/aramaic/%D7%90%D7%A3/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Aramaic](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/aramaic/) / [א](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/aramaic/alef/)‎ / אַף‎ # אַף Biblical Aramaic **also** — 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 also [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e3/#m1) ### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 אַף: conj. also [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e3/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** conj. also (BH אַף; Egyptian Aramaic, Palm. אף (S-CPap. Lzb 224); 𝔗 אַף, 𝔗J also אוֹף; Syriac ܐܳܦ );—also, always וְאַף Dn 6:23; Ezr 5:10, 14; 6:5. ### Jastrow 1903 אַף I: also, too the same. even following the dictation of; even on the top of, = notwithstanding, although nevertheless Chald. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e3/#m3) **The whole Jastrow entry:** also, too. Keth. 6ᵇ; a. fr. אף הוא the same. Aboth II, 6.—אף על פי (abbr. אע"פ) prop. even following the dictation of; אף על גב (abbr. אע"ג) prop. even on the top of, = notwithstanding, although (the former mostly in Mishnah, the latter in Gemara). Keth. V, 1 אע"פ שאמרו וכ׳ although the Rabbis have said; a. fr.—Meg. 3ᵃ אע"ג דאיהו לא חזא although he does not see it; a. v. fr.—אף על פי כן nevertheless. Snh. 98ᵃ; a. fr.—Chald. same. Targ. O. Num. XVI, 13; a. e. V. אוּף. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 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: also (4). ## In the verses [Ezra 5:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.10/#tree) וְאַ֧ף שְׁמָהָתְהֹ֛ם שְׁאֵ֥לְנָא לְּהֹ֖םלְהוֹדָעוּתָ֑ךְ דִּ֛י נִכְתֻּ֥ב שֻׁם־גֻּבְרַיָּ֖א דִּ֥י בְרָאשֵׁיהֹֽם׃ס *Word for word:* and also names their we.asked to them to make known.to.you (diy).that we.will.write the.name of the.men who \[are\].at heads their *JPS 1917:* We asked them their names also, to announce to thee, that we might write the names of the men that were at the head of them. [Daniel 6:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.23/#tree) אֱלָהִ֞י שְׁלַ֣ח מַלְאֲכֵ֗הּ וּֽסֲגַ֛ר פֻּ֥ם אַרְיָוָתָ֖א וְלָ֣א חַבְּל֑וּנִי כָּל־קֳבֵ֗ל דִּ֤י קָֽדָמ֙וֹהִי֙ זָכוּ֙ הִשְׁתְּכַ֣חַת לִ֔י וְאַ֤ף קָֽדָמָךְ֙ מַלְכָּ֔א חֲבוּלָ֖ה לָ֥א עַבְדֵֽת׃ *Word for word:* God my he.sent angel his and he.closed the.mouth of the.lions and not they harmed.me as to because that before him innocence it.was.found to me and also before you O king a.hurtful.act not I.have.done *JPS 1917:* My God hath sent His angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me; forasmuch as before Him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.' ## In Targum Onkelos Number 34 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 201 times there, in the forms אַף (131); וְאַף (70). [Genesis 38:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.10/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew וּבְאֵישׁ קֳדָם יְיָ דִּי עֲבָד וַאֲמִית אַף יָתֵהּ וַיֵּ֛רַע בְּעֵינֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֑ה וַיָּ֖מֶת גַּם־אֹתֽוֹ׃ *Word for word:* and it.was.evil in the.eyes of.Yahweh \[that\].which he.had.done and he.put.to.death also him *JPS 1917:* And the thing which he did was evil in the sight of the LORD; and He slew him also. [Genesis 13:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.13.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.13.5/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew וְאַף לְלוֹט דְּאָזִיל עִם אַבְרָם הֲוָה עָאן וְתוֹרִין וּמַשְׁכְּנִין וְגַם־לְל֔וֹט הַהֹלֵ֖ךְ אֶת־אַבְרָ֑ם הָיָ֥ה צֹאן־וּבָקָ֖ר וְאֹהָלִֽים׃ *Word for word:* and also to Lot \[who was\].traveling with Abram it.belonged sheep and cattle and tents *JPS 1917:* And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. ## On Mova - [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_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_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).