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# אַרְבַּע

Biblical Aramaic

**four** — used 8 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

four [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d1_5b7_5bc_5e2/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרְבַּע²: n.m. four n.fpl. n.fs. n.fpl. n.m.pl. n.m.pl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d1_5b7_5bc_5e2/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. et f. four;— m.: bef. n.fpl. Dn 7:2, 3; n.fs. א׳ מְאָה Ezr 6:17; after n.fpl. Dn 7:6; as pred. אַרְבַּ֑ע v 17. f.: bef. n.m.pl. Dn 7:6, 17; after n.m.pl. 3:25.

### Jastrow 1903

אַרְבַּע: four [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d1_5b7_5bc_5e2/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** four, v. אַרְבָּעָא I a. אַרְבְּעָה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 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, only a cross-reference (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: four (6); \[are\] four (1); the four (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 7:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.3/#tree)

וְאַרְבַּ֤ע חֵיוָן֙ רַבְרְבָ֔ן סָלְקָ֖ן מִן־יַמָּ֑א שָׁנְיָ֖ן דָּ֥א מִן־דָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and four beasts great \[were\].coming.up from the sea \[they.were\].different this.\[one\] from this.\[one\]

*JPS 1917:* And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

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

אִלֵּין֙ חֵיוָתָ֣א רַבְרְבָתָ֔א דִּ֥י אִנִּ֖ין אַרְבַּ֑ע אַרְבְּעָ֥ה מַלְכִ֖ין יְקוּמ֥וּן מִן־אַרְעָֽא׃

*Word for word:* these the beasts (the) great which they \[are\].four four kings they.will.arise from the earth

*JPS 1917:* 'These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, that shall arise out of the earth.

## In Targum Onkelos

Number 99 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 60 times there, in the forms אַרְבַּע (35); וְאַרְבַּע (21); לְאַרְבַּע (2); בְּאַרְבַּע (1); ואַרְבַּע (1).

[Numbers 2:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.2.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.2.6/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וְחֵילֵהּ וּמִנְיָנוֹהִי חַמְשִׁין וְאַרְבְּעָא אַלְפִין וְאַרְבַּע מְאָה

וּצְבָא֖וֹ וּפְקֻדָ֑יו אַרְבָּעָ֧ה וַחֲמִשִּׁ֛ים אֶ֖לֶף וְאַרְבַּ֥ע מֵאֽוֹת׃ס

*Word for word:* and his.military group and his.enrolled \[men\] \[were\].four and fifty thousand and four hundred(s)

*JPS 1917:* and his host, even those that were numbered thereof, fifty and four thousand and four hundred;

[Numbers 2:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.2.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.2.8/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וְחֵילֵהּ וּמִנְיָנוֹהִי חַמְשִׁין וְשַׁבְעָא אַלְפִין וְאַרְבַּע מְאָה

וּצְבָא֖וֹ וּפְקֻדָ֑יו שִׁבְעָ֧ה וַחֲמִשִּׁ֛ים אֶ֖לֶף וְאַרְבַּ֥ע מֵאֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and his.military group and his.enrolled \[men\] \[were\].seven and fifty thousand and four hundred(s)

*JPS 1917:* and his host, and those that were numbered thereof, fifty and seven thousand and four hundred;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d1_5b7_5bc_5e2.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d1_5b7_5bc_5e2/): 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).