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# אַרְכֻבָּה

Biblical Aramaic

**knee** — 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

knee [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5db_5bb_5d1_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרְכֻבָּה: n.f. id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5db_5bb_5d1_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id. (by transp.; cf.𝔗 רְכוּבָא, 𝔗J אַרְכּוּבְתָּא; Chr-Pal. ܐܪܟܘܒܬܐ SchwallyIdiot. 89 (who \> expl. from √ רכב, cf.SchulthLex. 194); Arabic رُكْبَةٌ id.);—pl. sf. אַרְכֻבָּתֵהּ Dn 5:6 his knees.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: knees (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.6/#tree)

אֱדַ֤יִן מַלְכָּא֙ זִיוֺ֣הִי שְׁנ֔וֹהִי וְרַעיֹנֹ֖הִייְבַהֲלוּנֵּ֑הּ וְקִטְרֵ֤י חַרְצֵהּ֙ מִשְׁתָּרַ֔יִן וְאַ֨רְכֻבָּתֵ֔הּ דָּ֥א לְדָ֖א נָֽקְשָֽׁן׃

*Word for word:* then the king brightness(es) his they changed.him and thoughts his they alarmed.him and the.joints of his.loin\[s\] \[were\].loosened and knees his this.\[one\] to this.\[one\] \[were\].knocking

*JPS 1917:* Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts affrighted him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5db_5bb_5d1_5b8_5bc_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_5db_5bb_5d1_5b8_5bc_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).