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Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917. ## Meaning ### OpenScriptures lexical index only [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b7_5dd/#m1) ### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 בְּרַם: adv. only, nevertheless [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b7_5dd/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** adv. with advers. force, only, nevertheless (der. uncertain: Nö M 202 = מָא + בָּר, lit. except what: 𝔗 בְּרַם often for אַךְ, אוּלָם; Syriac ܒܪܰܡ Ex 9:16; 21:21, and in NT for πλήν; Chr-Pal. ܒܪܢ, ܒܪܝܢ );—Dn 2:28; 4:12 hew down the tree, etc., בְּרַם … שְׁבֻקוּ only leave the stump, etc., v 20; 5:17; Ezr 5:13. ### Jastrow 1903 בְּרַם: to split besides however. only, but truly!, surely! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b7_5dd/#m3) **The whole Jastrow entry:** conj. (ברם to split, √בר, cmp. פרם, v. בּוֹרְמָא) besides. Targ. Y. Ex. XXXVI, 7. however. Dan. IV, 12; V, 17.—Targ. Ps. LVIII, 3; a. fr. only, but. Targ. Gen. VII, 23. Targ. Lam. III, 3 (h. text אַךְ). Targ. Ps. LVIII, 2 הב׳ בקושטא is it only in truth (indeed)?—Sabb. 63ᵇ; Erub. 16ᵇ, a. fr. ב׳ כך אמרו but in fact they said this. B. Mets. 114ᵃ.—3) interj. truly!, surely! Sabb. 13ᵇ; Ḥag. 13ᵃ; Men. 45ᵇ ב׳ זכור וכ׳ truly! this man be remembered for blessing!—\[Ḥull. 112ᵃ דאברים some ed., read: דאבריה, v. בְּרָא.\] Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates) ## Glosses MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: nevertheless (5). ## In the verses [Ezra 5:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.13/#tree) בְּרַם֙ בִּשְׁנַ֣ת חֲדָ֔ה לְכ֥וֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֖א דִּ֣י בָבֶ֑ל כּ֤וֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּא֙ שָׂ֣ם טְעֵ֔ם בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֥א דְנָ֖ה לִבְּנֵֽא׃ *Word for word:* nevertheless in year one of Cyrus the king (diy).of Babylon Cyrus the king he.made a.decree the.house of.(the) God this to build *JPS 1917:* But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God. [Daniel 2:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.28/#tree) בְּרַ֡ם אִיתַ֞י אֱלָ֤הּ בִּשְׁמַיָּא֙ גָּלֵ֣א רָזִ֔ין וְהוֹדַ֗ע לְמַלְכָּא֙ נְבֽוּכַדְנֶצַּ֔ר מָ֛ה דִּ֥י לֶהֱוֵ֖א בְּאַחֲרִ֣ית יוֹמַיָּ֑א חֶלְמָ֨ךְ וְחֶזְוֵ֥י רֵאשָׁ֛ךְ עַֽל־מִשְׁכְּבָ֖ךְ דְּנָ֥ה הֽוּא׃פ *Word for word:* nevertheless there \[is\].a.God in the heavens \[who\].reveals secrets and he.has.made.known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what that it.will.be at the.end of the.days dream your and the.visions of your.head on bed your \[is\].this it *JPS 1917:* but there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and He hath made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the end of days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these: ## In Targum Onkelos Number 109 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 54 times there, in the forms בְּרַם (47); וּבְרַם (7). [Genesis 9:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.4/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew בְּרַם בִּשְׂרָא בְּנַפְשֵׁהּ דְּמֵהּ לָא תֵכְלוּן אַךְ־בָּשָׂ֕ר בְּנַפְשׁ֥וֹ דָמ֖וֹ לֹ֥א תֹאכֵֽלוּ׃ *Word for word:* nevertheless flesh with life its blood its not you.must.eat *JPS 1917:* Only flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. [Genesis 30:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.34/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew וַאֲמַר לָבָן בְּרַם לְוַי יְהֵי כְפִתְגָּמָךְ וַיֹּ֥אמֶר לָבָ֖ן הֵ֑ן ל֖וּ יְהִ֥י כִדְבָרֶֽךָ׃ *Word for word:* and he.said Laban there! if let.it.be according to your.word *JPS 1917:* And Laban said: 'Behold, would it might be according to thy word.' ## On Mova - [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b7_5dd.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b7_5dd/): 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).