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# גִּזְבָּר

Biblical Aramaic

**treasurer** — 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

treasurer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b4_5bc_5d6_5b0_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גִּזְבָּר: n.m. treasurer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b4_5bc_5d6_5b0_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. treasurer (Pers. loan-word (Scheft81); 𝔗 Syriac BH; K§ 64, 3; in Bab. ganzabaru Peiser ZAW xvii (1897), 347);—pl. emph. גִּזְבָּרַיָּא Ezr 7:21.—Vid. גְּדָֽבְרַיָּא.

### Jastrow 1903

גִּזְבָּר: manager, treasurer Amarkhal Gizbar; [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b4_5bc_5d6_5b0_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e8/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (late b. h.;, with format. ר) manager, treasurer. Ex. R. s. 21 עשיתיך ג׳ עליו I have appointed thee its (the Sea’s) commander. Ex. R. s. 51 ג׳ לעצמו sole treasurer. Sabb. 31ᵇ. Tosef. Hor. II, 10 אמרכל קודם לגי׳ the Amarkhal in the Temple is of a higher rank than the Gizbar; Y. ib. III, 48ᵇ ליגבר (corr. acc.); a. fr.—Pl. גִּזְבָּרִים, גִּזְבָּרִין, גִּיזְ׳. Meïl. III, 8. Shek. V, 2; a. fr.—Fem. גִּזְבָּרִית. Sabb. 62ᵃ אשה ג׳ a woman engaged as treasurer (wearing a signet ring).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezra 7:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.21/#tree)

וּ֠מִנִּי אֲנָ֞ה אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֤סְתְּא מַלְכָּא֙ שִׂ֣ים טְעֵ֔ם לְכֹל֙ גִּזַּֽבְרַיָּ֔א דִּ֖י בַּעֲבַ֣ר נַהֲרָ֑ה דִּ֣י כָל־דִּ֣י יִ֠שְׁאֲלֶנְכוֹן עֶזְרָ֨א כָהֲנָ֜ה סָפַ֤ר דָּתָא֙ דִּֽי־אֱלָ֣הּ שְׁמַיָּ֔א אָסְפַּ֖רְנָא יִתְעֲבִֽד׃

*Word for word:* and from me I Artaxerxes the king it.is.made a.decree to all the treasurers who \[are\].in the.region.beyond the river (diy).that all that he will.ask.you.for Ezra the priest the.scribe of the.law (diy).of the.God of the.heavens diligently let.it.be.done

*JPS 1917:* And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers that are beyond the River, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done with all diligence,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d2_5b4_5bc_5d6_5b0_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_5d6_5b0_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).