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# גִּבָּר

Biblical Aramaic

**mighty one** — 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

mighty one [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b4_5bc_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גִּבָּר: n.m. mighty one [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b4_5bc_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. mighty one;—pl. cstr. גִּבָּרֵי־ חַיִל Dn 3:20 (= BH גִּבּוֹרֵי חַיִל).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 3:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.20/#tree)

וּלְגֻבְרִ֤ין גִּבָּֽרֵי־חַ֙יִל֙ דִּ֣י בְחַיְלֵ֔הּ אֲמַר֙ לְכַפָּתָ֔ה לְשַׁדְרַ֥ךְ מֵישַׁ֖ךְ וַעֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ עֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ לְמִרְמֵ֕א לְאַתּ֥וּן נוּרָ֖א יָקִֽדְתָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and to men mighty.men of.power who \[were\].in army his he.said to bind (et) Shadrach Meshach and.Abednego and.Abednego to throw to the.furnace of the.fire (the) burning

*JPS 1917:* And he commanded certain mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d2_5b4_5bc_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b4_5bc_5d1_5b8_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).