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# אַרְיֵה

Biblical Aramaic

**lion** — used 10 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

lion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b5_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרְיֵה: n.m. lion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b5_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dn 6:25b lion;—abs. א׳ Dn 7:4 (sim.); pl. emph. אַרְיָוָתָא (D 153) 6:8, 13, 17, 20, 21, 23, 25(×2), 28.

### Jastrow 1903

אַרְיֵה

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , v. אֲרִי.—אריה Y. Snh. X, 28ᵈ, v. אֲרִיחַ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 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: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of (5); the (4); a lion (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.20/#tree)

בֵּאדַ֣יִן מַלְכָּ֔א בִּשְׁפַּרְפָּרָ֖א יְק֣וּם בְּנָגְהָ֑א וּבְהִ֨תְבְּהָלָ֔ה לְגֻבָּ֥א דִֽי־אַרְיָוָתָ֖א אֲזַֽל׃

*Word for word:* then the king at (the) dawn he.arose at the daylight and in haste to the den (diy).of the lions he.went

*JPS 1917:* Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.

[Daniel 6:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.28/#tree)

מְשֵׁיזִ֣ב וּמַצִּ֗ל וְעָבֵד֙ אָתִ֣ין וְתִמְהִ֔ין בִּשְׁמַיָּ֖א וּבְאַרְעָ֑א דִּ֚י שֵׁיזִ֣יב לְדָֽנִיֵּ֔אל מִן־יַ֖ד אַרְיָוָתָֽא׃

*Word for word:* \[he.is\].delivering and \[he.is\].rescuing and \[he.is\].doing signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth \[one\].who he.has.delivered (et) Daniel from the.hand of the.lions

*JPS 1917:* He delivereth and rescueth, and He worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth; who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b5_5d4.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_5d9_5b5_5d4/): 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).