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# גִּיר

Biblical Aramaic

**chalk** — 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

chalk [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גִּיר: chalk, plaster [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] chalk, plaster (so 𝔗; BH once, p. 162);—emph. גִּירָא Dn 5:5.

### Jastrow 1903

גִּיר: lime, plaster. froth, foam. disease, sort of fever ? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e8/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , lime, plaster. Dan. V, 5.—Targ. O. Ex. XVI, 14 דעדק כג׳ thin and brittle like a coat of lime (h. text מחספס). Targ. Y. Deut. XXVII, 2 (h. text סיד); a. e.—2) froth, foam. Pl. גִּירִין Targ. Y. Ex. XV, 10 ג׳ דימא the foaming billows. \[Targ. Jer. IX, 14, read כגידין, v. גִּידָּא II.\]—3) name of a disease, a sort of fever (?). Gitt. 69ᵇ, v. next w.

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (21 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.5/#tree)

בַּהּ־שַׁעֲתָ֗ה נְפַ֙קָה֙ אֶצְבְּעָן֙ דִּ֣י יַד־אֱנָ֔שׁ וְכָֽתְבָן֙ לָקֳבֵ֣ל נֶבְרַשְׁתָּ֔א עַל־גִּירָ֕א דִּֽי־כְתַ֥ל הֵיכְלָ֖א דִּ֣י מַלְכָּ֑א וּמַלְכָּ֣א חָזֵ֔ה פַּ֥ס יְדָ֖ה דִּ֥י כָתְבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* at it the moment they.went.forth fingers (diy).of a.hand of.a.human and \[they.were\].writing (to) before the candlestick on the plaster (diy).of the.wall of the.palace (diy).of the king and the king \[was\].seeing the.palm of the.hand which \[was\].writing

*JPS 1917:* In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d2_5b4_5bc_5d9_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_5d9_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).