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# בִּירָה

Biblical Aramaic

**castle** — 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

castle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Jastrow 1903

בִּירָה: cut off, surrounded castle, fort group of buildings forming one residence the chosen Divine residence, Temple [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** cut off, surrounded, whence castle, fort. Gen. R. s. 39; a. fr. a group of buildings forming one residence. B. Bath. 61ᵇ בית בב׳ גדולה a house in a large residence (court). Bets. 25ᵃ בטפיחין ובב׳; (ib. 24ᵃ בט׳ בבירות); v. טפיח I, 2. (= בית הבחירה, I Chr. XXIX, 1; 19) the chosen Divine residence, Temple. Zeb. 119ᵃ והא בעי ב׳ does it not require a chosen residence (Deut. XII, 18)? Y. Pes. II, 35ᵃ top כל הר וכ׳ the whole Temple mount is named Birah; Pesik. R. s. 14. Zeb. XII, 5 (104ᵇ) בבית הב׳; v. Ib. a. l.—Yoma 9ᵇ עידיכם הב׳ your witness is the Second Temple (which has not been rebuilt; Y. ib. I, 38ᶜ bot. הבחירה). Eduy. VII, 3 בִּירַת הפליא (Ms. M. הפליי׳) Fort Haflaya(?).—Pl. בִּירוֹת. Bets. 24ᵃ, v. supra. Zeb. 119ᵃ שלש ב׳ וכ׳ there are three Divine residences, Shiloh &c. Ch. בִּירְתָא.—Denom. בִּרְיוֹן.

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezra 6:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.2/#tree)

וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֣ח בְּאַחְמְתָ֗א בְּבִֽירְתָ֛א דִּ֛י בְּמָדַ֥י מְדִינְתָּ֖ה מְגִלָּ֣ה חֲדָ֑ה וְכֵן־כְּתִ֥יב בְּגַוַּ֖הּ דִּכְרוֹנָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.was.found in Ecbatana in the citadel which \[is\].in Media the province a.scroll one and as.follows it.was.written in midst its (the) memorandum

*JPS 1917:* And there was found at Ahmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus written: 'A record.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e8_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e8_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).