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# דְּחַל

Biblical Aramaic

**fear** — used 6 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b0_5bc_5d7_5b7_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דְּחַל: Pe. Pa. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b0_5bc_5d7_5b7_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** );—Pe. Pt. act. pl. דָּֽחְלִין Dn 5:19, c. מִן־קֳדָם of king, 6:27, id. of God; pass. דְּחִיל terrible 2:31, f. דְּחִילָה 7:7, 19. Pa. Impf. 3 ms. sf. וִידַחֲלִנַּנִי 4:2 the dream made me afraid.

### Jastrow 1903

דְּחַל

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , v. דְּחֵיל

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] terrible (2); fearing (2); \[it was\] terrible (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.2/#tree)

חֵ֥לֶם חֲזֵ֖ית וִֽידַחֲלִנַּ֑נִי וְהַרְהֹרִין֙ עַֽל־מִשְׁכְּבִ֔י וְחֶזְוֵ֥י רֵאשִׁ֖י יְבַהֲלֻנַּֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* a.dream I.saw and it made.me.afraid and imaginings on bed my and the.visions of my.head they alarmed.me

*JPS 1917:* I saw a dream which made me afraid; and imaginings upon my bed and the visions of my head affrighted me.

[Daniel 2:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.31/#tree)

אַ֣נְתְּהמַלְכָּ֗א חָזֵ֤ה הֲוַ֙יְתָ֙ וַאֲל֨וּ צְלֵ֥ם חַד֙ שַׂגִּ֔יא צַלְמָ֨א דִּכֵּ֥ן רַ֛ב וְזִיוֵ֥הּ יַתִּ֖יר קָאֵ֣ם לְקָבְלָ֑ךְ וְרֵוֵ֖הּ דְּחִֽיל׃

*Word for word:* you O king seeing you.were and lo! an.image one great the image this \[was\].great and splendor its \[was\].extraordinary \[was\].standing (to) before you and appearance its \[was\].terrible

*JPS 1917:* Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was surpassing, stood before thee; and the appearance thereof was terrible.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d3_5b0_5bc_5d7_5b7_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b0_5bc_5d7_5b7_5dc/): 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).