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# אֶשָּׁא

Biblical Aramaic

**fire** — 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

fire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b8_5bc_5c1_5d0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶשָּׁא: fire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b8_5bc_5c1_5d0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] fire (BH אֵשׁ; K § 55, 5. 2 b thinks emph. from onomatop. √ אשׁשׁ; D 161 Buhl √ אשׁא, cf.𝔗 אִישָּׁא, אִישָּׁתָא, Syriac ܐܶܫܳܬܳܐ );—Dn 7:11.

### Jastrow 1903

אֶשָּׁא: fire torches fever tertian; inflammatory fever quotidian [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b8_5bc_5c1_5d0/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** fire. Targ. Gen. XV, 17; a. fr.—B. Mets. 85ᵇ בעורין דאשא torches. Men. 53ᵃ אישא וכ׳ may fire consume him. fever. Targ. Y. Gen. XXI, 15.—Yoma 29ᵃ אישתא וכ׳ the fever in winter time. Sabb. 66ᵇ sq. א׳ תלתא tertian; א׳ צמירתא inflammatory fever, א׳ בת יומא quotidian. Yeb. 71ᵇ דזנתיה אי׳ fever fed its vital energies. Snh. 108ᵇ

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 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 agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 7:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.11/#tree)

חָזֵ֣ה הֲוֵ֔ית בֵּאדַ֗יִן מִן־קָל֙ מִלַּיָּ֣א רַבְרְבָתָ֔א דִּ֥י קַרְנָ֖א מְמַלֱּלָ֑ה חָזֵ֣ה הֲוֵ֡ית עַד֩ דִּ֨י קְטִילַ֤ת חֵֽיוְתָא֙ וְהוּבַ֣ד גִּשְׁמַ֔הּ וִיהִיבַ֖ת לִיקֵדַ֥ת אֶשָּֽׁא׃

*Word for word:* seeing I.was then from the.sound of the.words (the) great which the horn \[was\].speaking seeing I.was until that it.was.killed the beast and it.was.destroyed body its and it.was.given to.\[the\] burning of.fire

*JPS 1917:* I beheld at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke, I beheld even till the beast was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b8_5bc_5c1_5d0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b8_5bc_5c1_5d0/): 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).