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Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917. ## Meaning ### OpenScriptures lexical index bath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b7_5bc_5ea/#m1) ### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 בַּת: bath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b7_5bc_5ea/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] bath, liquid measure (𝔗; perhaps loan-word from BH ii. בַּת, √ בתת);—pl. abs. בַּתִּין Ezr 7:22(×2). ### Jastrow 1903 בַּת I: daughter; maiden, girl; servant-girl girls fuel, fit for fuel the hole in the millstone through which the grain passes echo, reverberating sound Bath-Kol, divine voice [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b7_5bc_5ea/#m3) **The whole Jastrow entry:** daughter; maiden, girl; servant-girl (opp. שפחה slave). Gitt. 89ᵃ בת לא"א a daughter of Abraham our father, a Jewess. B. Bath. 109ᵃ בן וב׳ כי הדדי נינהו son and daughter are legally the same. Kidd. II, 3 בת או שפחה גדלת (Bab. ed. מגוד׳) a maid or a slave as hair-dresser; a. fr.—Pl. בָּנוֹת, constr. בְּנוֹת. Sabb. VI, 6 הבָּ׳ girls. Kidd. 64ᵃ בְּ׳ ישראל מקוה וכ׳ Israelitish daughters (married to a degraded priest, v. חָלָל) are a well of purification (means of restoration to priestly ranks); a. fr.—Also Ch. בַּת (v. בְּרַת). Targ. Deut. XV, 12.—Mostly in compounds. Targ. I Sam. I, 16 ב׳ רשעא (h. text בת בליעל); v. infra.—\[Y. Keth. II, 26ᵈ bot., read: בתר איתתיה. Y. Gitt. IX, 50ᵈ top כבת יוני, read: כתב.\] a. בְּנוֹת (v. בֵּן, בַּר): ב׳ אור fuel, fit for fuel. Sabb. 25ᵇ. בנות אזנים, v. אֹזֶן.—בת ארעא a sore on the foot, v. אַרְעָא. Sabb. 65ᵃ (Mish. צנים).—ב׳ מזגא חמרא Little Wine-Mixer, name of a clean bird. Ḥull. 63ᵃ top.—ב׳ מינא of the same class or size. Ab. Zar. 28ᵃ.—ב׳ מלך, ב׳ חורין King’s, Noblemen’s Daughter, name of a demon. Sabb. 109ᵃ. \[ב׳ עין, Ex. R. s. 30, some ed., v. בָּבָה.\]—בת עינא the hole in the millstone through which the grain passes. M. Kat. 10ᵃ (Ms. M. בית טינא).—בת קבריא a species of raven. Esth. R. to I, 4, v. גַּלְגֵּל.—ב׳ קול echo, reverberating sound. Ex. R. s. 29, end. Cant. R. to I, 3 as the oil (when poured out) אין לו ב׳ קול gives forth no reverberating sound, so does Israel (suffer silently). Bath-Kol, divine voice, a sort of substitute for prophecy. Yoma 9ᵇ; a. fr.—בְּנוֹת שֶׁבַע a species of figs, v. בְּרַת. Maasr. II, 8; a. fr.—ב׳ שׁוּחַ a species of white figs. Dem. I, 1; a. e.—ב׳ שקמה young sycamore-figs. Ib.; Ber. 40ᵇ, v. דּוּבְלָא.—בת תיהא the small bung-hole in the spicket, to be opened for examining the flavor of the wine. Ab. Zar. 66ᵇ.—\[For other compounds, v. respective determinants.\]—Chald. pl., v. בְּרַת. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates) ## Glosses MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: baths (2). ## In the verses [Ezra 7:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.22/#tree) עַד־כְּסַף֮ כַּכְּרִ֣ין מְאָה֒ וְעַד־חִנְטִין֙ כֹּרִ֣ין מְאָ֔ה וְעַד־חֲמַר֙ בַּתִּ֣ין מְאָ֔ה וְעַד־בַּתִּ֥ין מְשַׁ֖ח מְאָ֑ה וּמְלַ֖ח דִּי־לָ֥א כְתָֽב׃ *Word for word:* up.to silver talents one.hundred and up.to wheat(s) cors one.hundred and up.to wine baths one.hundred and up.to baths oil one.hundred and salt which not \[is\].writing *JPS 1917:* unto a hundred talents of silver, and to a hundred measures of wheat, and to a hundred baths of wine, and to a hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much. ## In Targum Onkelos Number 89 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 69 times there, in the forms בַּת (51); בַת (10); וּבַת (4); לְבַת (3); בְּבַת (1). [Numbers 26:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.46/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew וְשׁוּם בַּת אָשֵׁר סָרַח וְשֵׁ֥ם בַּת־אָשֵׁ֖ר שָֽׂרַח׃ *Word for word:* and the.name of.the.daughter of.Asher \[was\].Serah *JPS 1917:* And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. [Deuteronomy 14:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.13/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew וּבַת כַּנְפָא וְטָרָפִיתָא וְדַיְתָא לִזְנַהּ וְהָרָאָה֙ וְאֶת־הָ֣אַיָּ֔ה וְהַדַּיָּ֖ה לְמִינָֽהּ׃ *Word for word:* and the kite and (et) the.black kite and the.red kite to kind its *JPS 1917:* and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite after its kinds; ## On Mova - [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b7_5bc_5ea.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_5ea/): 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).