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# דָּרְיָוֶשׁ

Biblical Aramaic

**Darius** — used 15 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

Darius [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d5_5b6_5e9_5c1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּֽרְיָ֫וֶשׁ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d5_5b6_5e9_5c1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (BH id.; Egyptian Aramaic דריוהוש RÉS 361 S-C H 1 +);— Darius Hystaspis Ezr 4:24 + 8 times Ezr. ‘Darius the Mede’ Dn 6:1, 2, 7, 10, 26, 29.

### Jastrow 1903

דָּרְיָוֶשׁ: Darius [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d5_5b6_5e9_5c1/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (b. h.) pr. n. m. Darius, King of Persia. Lev. R. s. 13; Esth. R. to IV, 4 ד׳ האחרון וכ׳ Darius the Second was the son of Esther.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 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: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Darius (11); of Darius (3); O Darius (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.1/#tree)

וְדָרְיָ֙וֶשׁ֙ מָֽדָיָ֔אקַבֵּ֖ל מַלְכוּתָ֑א כְּבַ֥ר שְׁנִ֖ין שִׁתִּ֥ין וְתַרְתֵּֽין׃

*Word for word:* and Darius the Mede he.received the kingdom about a.son of.years sixty and two

*JPS 1917:* And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

[Daniel 6:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.10/#tree)

כָּל־קֳבֵ֖ל דְּנָ֑ה מַלְכָּא֙ דָּֽרְיָ֔וֶשׁ רְשַׁ֥ם כְּתָבָ֖א וֶאֱסָרָֽא׃

*Word for word:* as to because this the king Darius he.signed the writing and the prohibition

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d5_5b6_5e9_5c1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d5_5b6_5e9_5c1/): 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).