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# דָּנִיֵּאל

Biblical Aramaic

**Daniel** — used 52 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

Daniel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5e0_5b4_5d9_5b5_5bc_5d0_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּנִיֵּאל: n.pr.m. Daniel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5e0_5b4_5d9_5b5_5bc_5d0_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Daniel (BH id.);—Dn 2:13, 14 + 50 times Dn.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Daniel (50); O Daniel (1); \[are\] Daniel (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.22/#tree)

אֱדַ֙יִן֙ דָּנִיֶּ֔אל עִם־מַלְכָּ֖א מַלִּ֑ל מַלְכָּ֖א לְעָלְמִ֥ין חֱיִֽי׃

*Word for word:* then Daniel with the king he.spoke O king forever live!

*JPS 1917:* Then said Daniel unto the king: 'O king, live for ever!

[Daniel 6:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.29/#tree)

וְדָנִיֵּ֣אל דְּנָ֔ה הַצְלַ֖ח בְּמַלְכ֣וּת דָּרְיָ֑וֶשׁ וּבְמַלְכ֖וּת כּ֥וֹרֶשׁ פָּרְסָאָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and Daniel this he.prospered in the.reign of.Darius and in the.reign of.Cyrus the Persian

*JPS 1917:* So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5e0_5b4_5d9_5b5_5bc_5d0_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).