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Palm. בר (and בן) Lzb 242 f.; Sab. בר according to Mordtm VOJ x. 154 f.; = בֵּן, ן becoming ר, Philippi ZMG xxxii (1878), 36 ff. Brock Syriac Gr. § 76 al.; √ diff. from בן according to JHMich Thes K§ 63 al.; BH בַּר Aramaism for בֵּן);—cstr. ב׳ Dn 3:25 +; sf. בְּרֵהּ 5:22; pl. cstr. בְּנֵי Ezr 6:9 +; sf. בְּנ֫וֹהִי 6:10; 7:23, בְּנֵיהוֹן Dn 6:25;— son(s) Ezr 5:1, 2(×2); 6:14; Dn 5:22; 6:25; Ezr 6:10; 7:23; בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל 6:16 = Israelites, בְּנֵי גָלוּתָא = captives v 16; Dn 2:25; 5:13; 6:14; בַּר־אֱנָשׁ 7:13 i.e. one of human kind, בְּנֵי אֲנָשָׁא men 2:38; 5:21; בַּר־אֱלָהִין 3:25 a divine (or angelic) being (v. Dr, and cf.BH Gn 6:2; Jb 1:6); בַּר שְׁנִין וגו׳ 6:1 a son of 62 years = 62 years old (BH בֵּן 9). of bullocks, בְּנֵי תוֹרִין Ezr 6:9. ### Jastrow 1903 בַּר II: son, offspring grandson scholar diver maniac rational being [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b7_5bc_5e8/#m3) **The whole Jastrow entry:** (b. h. בַּר poetic; ברי) son, offspring. Targ. Gen. IV, 25; a. v. fr.—ב׳ שמואל son of Sam.; … בְּרֵיה דר׳ son of … Ber. 3ᵃ. Ḥull. 11ᵃ; a. v. fr.—B. Mets. 110ᵃ … בְּרָהּ דבת the son of the daughter of … Sabb. 116ᵇ במקום ברא ברתא וכ׳ where there is a son, the daughter cannot inherit. Y. Shebi. IX, 39ᵃ bot. אמה דהן ילדת ב׳ this nan’s mother has born a son, i.e. she may be proud of him; Y. Ab. Zar. IV, 43ᵈ אית לאימיה ב׳ (not ואית); a. v. fr.—Pl. \[בְּרִין, בְּרֵי. Targ. Y. Ex. X, 9 (some ed.). Targ. Ps. CXXVII, 5 Ms.\] בְּנִין, בְּנֵי, בְּנַיָּא. Targ. Gen. V, 4 בְּנִין וּבְנָן sons and daughters; a. fr.—Keth. IV, 10 (in a marriage contract) בנין דכרין male issue, opp. בְּנָן נוקבין, ib. 11.—Ber. 10ᵃ ב׳ דמעלו good children. Y. B. Bath. VIII, 16ᵇ bot. אין הוון בנוי דהנייה (read בָּנַיי) if my children turn out well; a. v. fr.—בר בר, בר בת grandson. Esth. R. introd. (expl. נין ונכד) בר ובר בר (not וברבר) son and grandson; a. fr. \[The meaning of בר in compounds is generally the same as of בן a. בעל, e.g. ב׳ אולפן a scholar, ב׳ אמודאי a diver, ב׳ שטיא a maniac, ב׳ דעת a rational being. בר בי רב, v. בֵּי. For compounds which are not self-evident, see the respective determinants.\] Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (27 candidates) ## Glosses MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of (6); the sons (5); the son (4). ## In the verses [Daniel 6:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.1/#tree) וְדָרְיָ֙וֶשׁ֙ מָֽדָיָ֔אקַבֵּ֖ל מַלְכוּתָ֑א כְּבַ֥ר שְׁנִ֖ין שִׁתִּ֥ין וְתַרְתֵּֽין׃ *Word for word:* and Darius the Mede he.received the kingdom about a.son of.years sixty and two *JPS 1917:* And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. [Daniel 5:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.22/#tree) וְאַ֤נְתְּ בְּרֵהּ֙ בֵּלְשַׁאצַּ֔ר לָ֥א הַשְׁפֵּ֖לְתְּ לִבְבָ֑ךְ כָּל־קֳבֵ֕ל דִּ֥י כָל־דְּנָ֖ה יְדַֽעְתָּ׃ *Word for word:* and you son his O.Belshazzar not you.have.brought.low heart your as to because that all this you.knew *JPS 1917:* And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this; ## In Targum Onkelos Number 14 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 419 times there, in the forms בַּר (374); בַר (19); וּבַר (16); לְבַר (10). [Numbers 1:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.6/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew לְשִׁמְעוֹן שְׁלֻמִיאֵל בַּר צוּרִישַׁדָי לְשִׁמְע֕וֹן שְׁלֻמִיאֵ֖ל בֶּן־צוּרִֽישַׁדָּֽי׃ *Word for word:* for Simeon Shelumiel the.son of.Zurishaddai *JPS 1917:* Of Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. [Numbers 1:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.7/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew לִיהוּדָה נַחְשׁוֹן בַּר עַמִינָדָב לִֽיהוּדָ֕ה נַחְשׁ֖וֹן בֶּן־עַמִּינָדָֽב׃ *Word for word:* for Judah Nahshon the.son of.Amminadab *JPS 1917:* Of Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab. ## On Mova - [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b7_5bc_5e8.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b7_5bc_5e8/): 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).