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# אֲרְיוֹךְ

Biblical Aramaic

**Arioch** — used 5 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

Arioch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5da_5b0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרְיוֹךְ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5da_5b0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. in Bab. (BH id., cf.Dl Baer Dn ix);—Dn 2:14, 15(×2), 24, 25; Αριωχ(ης).

### Jastrow 1903

אַרְיוֹךְ: Aryokh Aryokh judge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5da_5b0/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (Gen. XIV, 1) Aryokh, homiletic surname of Nebuzraddan. Lam. R. to V, 5 (allusion to ארי). (cmp. Dan. II, 14) Aryokh, a title of Samuel, the contemporary of Rab. Sabb. 53ᵃ. Kidd. 39ᵃ. Men. 38ᵇ. Ḥull. 76ᵇ (prob. a Persian adaptation for judge).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Arioch (5).

## In the verses

[Daniel 2:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.14/#tree)

בֵּאדַ֣יִן דָּנִיֵּ֗אל הֲתִיב֙ עֵטָ֣א וּטְעֵ֔ם לְאַרְי֕וֹךְ רַב־טַבָּחַיָּ֖א דִּ֣י מַלְכָּ֑א דִּ֚י נְפַ֣ק לְקַטָּלָ֔ה לְחַכִּימֵ֖י בָּבֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* then Daniel he.sent.back counsel and discretion to Arioch the.chief the executioners (diy).of the king who he.went.out to kill (et).the wise.men of.Babylon

*JPS 1917:* Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and discretion to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, who was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon;

[Daniel 2:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.15/#tree)

עָנֵ֣ה וְאָמַ֗ר לְאַרְיוֹךְ֙ שַׁלִּיטָ֣א דִֽי־מַלְכָּ֔א עַל־מָ֥ה דָתָ֛א מְהַחְצְפָ֖ה מִן־קֳדָ֣ם מַלְכָּ֑א אֱדַ֣יִן מִלְּתָ֔א הוֹדַ֥ע אַרְי֖וֹךְ לְדָנִיֵּֽאל׃

*Word for word:* \[he.was\].replying and \[he.was\].saying to Arioch the captain (diy).of the king on what? \[is\].the decree harsh from before the king then the matter he.made.known Arioch to Daniel

*JPS 1917:* he answered and said to Arioch the king's captain: 'Wherefore is the decree so peremptory from the king?' Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5da_5b0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5da_5b0/): 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).