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# דָּת

Biblical Aramaic

**decree** — used 14 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

decree [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּת: n.f. decree, law [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5ea/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Dn 6:9 decree, law (Syriac; Pers. loan-word, v. BH);—ד׳ abs. Dn 6:16; 7:25, cstr. Ezr 7:14 +; emph. דָּתָא Ezr 7:12 +; sf. דָּֽתְכוֹן Dn 2:9;— decree of king Dn 2:13, 15; Ezr 7:26; c. sf. Dn 2:9 decree against you. unchangeable law of Medes and Pers. Dn 6:9, 13, 16. law of God (in mouth of non-Jews): Dn 6:6 Ezr 7:12, 14, 21, 26, so (abs.) Dn 7:25; laws of God Ezr 7:25.

### Jastrow 1903

דָּת ²

**The whole Jastrow entry:** Dan. VI, 16. Ib. II, 15; a. fr.—Pl. constr. דָּתֵי. Ezra VII, 25.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 2 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, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (3); the law (3); of (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 2:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.13/#tree)

וְדָתָ֣א נֶפְקַ֔ת וְחַכִּֽימַיָּ֖א מִֽתְקַטְּלִ֑ין וּבְע֛וֹ דָּנִיֵּ֥אל וְחַבְר֖וֹהִי לְהִתְקְטָלָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and the decree it.went.out and the.wise men \[were\].about.to.be.killed and they.sought Daniel and companions his to be.killed

*JPS 1917:* So the decree went forth, and the wise men were to be slain; and they sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.

[Ezra 7:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.12/#tree)

אַ֨רְתַּחְשַׁ֔סְתְּא מֶ֖לֶךְ מַלְכַיָּ֑א לְעֶזְרָ֣א כָ֠הֲנָא סָפַ֨ר דָּתָ֜א דִּֽי־אֱלָ֧הּ שְׁמַיָּ֛א גְּמִ֖יר וּכְעֶֽנֶת׃

*Word for word:* Artaxerxes the.king of.(the) kings to Ezra the priest the.scribe of the.law (diy).of the.God of the.heavens perfect and now

*JPS 1917:* 'Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, and so forth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5ea.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_5ea/): 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).