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# אֲרַק

Biblical Aramaic

**earth** — 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

earth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b7_5e7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲרַק: earth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b7_5e7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] earth (= \[אֲרַע\]; ארקא Egyptian Aramaic S-CPap. B 15 + often (sometimes also ארעא, as ib. 16), Ninev. and Bab. Aramaic Cooke 192, also Mand. Nö M § 66, Zinj., Lzb 227 Cooke 166 (cf. 183); ק = ע, as Zinj. מוקא = מוצא, רקי = רצה, Cooke 166, 185; cf.K§ 7, 2 and Anm. 1 and reff., Cooke 185 NöZMG xlvii (1893), 100; M § 66 Gunk Schöpf. 18 Lzb Eph. i. 223 SACJQ, 1903–4, 273);—emph. אַרְקָא Je 10:11a.

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, 1 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: the (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 10:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.11/#tree)

כִּדְנָה֙ תֵּאמְר֣וּן לְה֔וֹם אֱלָ֣הַיָּ֔א דִּֽי־שְׁמַיָּ֥א וְאַרְקָ֖א לָ֣א עֲבַ֑דוּ יֵאבַ֧דוּ מֵֽאַרְעָ֛א וּמִן־תְּח֥וֹת שְׁמַיָּ֖א אֵֽלֶּה׃ס

*Word for word:* like this you.will.say to them the gods who the heavens and the earth not they.made may.they.perish from the earth and from under the heavens these

*JPS 1917:* Thus shall ye say unto them: 'The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b7_5e7.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_5b7_5e7/): 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).