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# אֲרִיךְ

Biblical Aramaic

**fitting** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fitting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b4_5d9_5da_5b0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרִיךְ: adj.vb. fitting, proper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b4_5d9_5da_5b0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.vb. fitting, proper (אַ׳ Baer K§ 16, 5 M-A§ 82, Anm. 2; van d. H. Gi Str אֲרִיךְ, cf.DWB 39; 𝔗 id.; orig. Pt. pass. K§ 57 b) r));—Ezr 4:14.

### Jastrow 1903

אֲרִיךְ II: long to arrange right, befitting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b4_5d9_5da_5b0/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (preced.) long. Targ. Ezek. XVII, 3.—Targ. Prov. XIV, 17 דא׳ תרעיתיה whose intrigue is long prepared (h. איש מזמות). V. אֲרִיכָא (part. pass. of אֲרַךְ to arrange) right, befitting. Ezra IV, 14.—Succ. 4ᵇ א׳ או לא א׳ is it right or not? B. Mets. 75ᵃ וא׳ and it is proper to do so. Midr. Till. to Ps. I, 2 וא׳ כדין is such a thing right?

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 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 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: \[is\] proper (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 4:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.14/#tree)

כְּעַ֗ן כָּל־קֳבֵל֙ דִּֽי־מְלַ֤ח הֵֽיכְלָא֙ מְלַ֔חְנָא וְעַרְוַ֣ת מַלְכָּ֔א לָ֥א אֲ‍ֽרִֽיךְ לַ֖נָא לְמֶֽחֱזֵ֑א עַ֨ל־דְּנָ֔ה שְׁלַ֖חְנָא וְהוֹדַ֥עְנָא לְמַלְכָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* now as to because that the.salt of the.palace we.eat.salt and the.dishonor of the.king not \[is\].proper for us to see concerning this we.have.sent and we.have.made.known to the king

*JPS 1917:* Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and announced to the king,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b4_5d9_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_5b4_5d9_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).