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# א

Biblical Aramaic

**Aleph** — used 799 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

### Jastrow 1903

א: Aleph [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0/#m1)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** Aleph, the first letter of the alphabet, interchanging with other gutturals, e.g. אבב, הבב, חבב, עבב; אליתא, עליתא &c.

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: none; Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: king (137); God (29); the heavens (25).

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.25/#tree)

כֹּ֣לָּא מְּטָ֔א עַל־נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֖ר מַלְכָּֽא׃פ

*Word for word:* (the) everything it.came on Nebuchadnezzar the king

*JPS 1917:* All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.

[Daniel 5:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.27/#tree)

תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה בְמֹֽאזַנְיָ֖א וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ חַסִּֽיר׃

*Word for word:* teqel you.have.been.weighed in the scales and you.have.been.found lacking

*JPS 1917:* TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_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).