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# אֲתָה

Biblical Aramaic

**come** — used 16 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

come [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5ea_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲתָה: vb. come [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5ea_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. come (BH poet. אָתָה; Palm. אתי Haph. Lzb230, Chr-Pal. ܐܬܐ Schulth Lex.);— Pf. 3 ms. אֲתָה Ezr 5:3; Dn 7:22; א—ָ Ezr 5:16; 3 mpl. אֲתוֹ 4:12; Imv. mpl. (וֶ)אֱתוֹ Dn 3:26; Inf. לְמֵתֵה (K § 41 c)) v 2; Pt. אָתֵה 7:13;—come, c. עַל pers. Ezr 4:12 (+ ל loc.), 5:3; c. ל rei Dn 3:2; abs. v 26; 7:13, 22; sq. vb. fin. act. Ezr 5:16. bring: Pf. 3 ms. הַיְתִי (K l.c.), Dn 5:13 (acc. pers. + מִן loc.); 3 mpl. הַיְתִיו, acc. rei 5:3, so (ל acc.) v 23 (+ קֳדָם pers.), 6:17 (ל acc. pers.), v 25 (acc. pers.); Inf. לְהַיְתָיָה (so Egyptian Aramaic RÉS 361 C) 3:13 (ל acc. pers.), 5:2 (ל acc. rei). (pass., K l.c.) be brought: Pf. 3 fs. הֵיתַ֫יִת (K § 47, Beisp. 6, W CG 225) subj. rei Dn 6:18; 3 mpl. הֵיתַ֫יוּ subj. pers. 3:13 (+ קֳדָם pers.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he came (3); they brought (3); bring (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 7:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.22/#tree)

עַ֣ד דִּֽי־אֲתָ֗ה עַתִּיק֙ יֽוֹמַיָּ֔א וְדִינָ֣א יְהִ֔ב לְקַדִּישֵׁ֖י עֶלְיוֹנִ֑ין וְזִמְנָ֣א מְטָ֔ה וּמַלְכוּתָ֖א הֶחֱסִ֥נוּ קַדִּישִֽׁין׃

*Word for word:* until that he.came the.\[one\].ancient of.(the) days and (the) judgment it.was.given for the.holy.\[ones\] of.the.Most.High and the.appointed time it.arrived and the kingdom they.took.possession.of \[the\].holy.\[ones\]

*JPS 1917:* until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High; and the time came, and the saints possessed the kingdom.

[Ezra 5:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.16/#tree)

אֱדַ֙יִן֙ שֵׁשְׁבַּצַּ֣ר דֵּ֔ךְ אֲתָ֗א יְהַ֧ב אֻשַּׁיָּ֛א דִּי־בֵ֥ית אֱלָהָ֖א דִּ֣י בִירוּשְׁלֶ֑ם וּמִן־אֱדַ֧יִן וְעַד־כְּעַ֛ן מִתְבְּנֵ֖א וְלָ֥א שְׁלִֽם׃

*Word for word:* then Sheshbazzar this he.came he.laid the foundations (diy).of the.house of.(the) God which \[is\].in Jerusalem and from then and until now \[it.is\].being.built and not \[it.is\].finished

*JPS 1917:* Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundations of the house of God which is in Jerusalem; and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not completed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5ea_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5ea_5b8_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).