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# הּ

Biblical Aramaic

**interrogative particle** — 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

interrogative particle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5bc/#m1)

### Jastrow 1903

ה: He [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5bc/#m2)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** He, the fifth letter of the Alphabet.—It interchanges dialectically with א as דָּה a. דָּא, הֵידֵיין a. אֵידֵין, הַגָּדָה a. אַגָּדָה &c.; with ח as דְּהַךְ a. דְּחַךְ, גָּהָה a. גָּחָה &c.; with ו as בְּהֵית a. בּוֹשׁ, רְהַט a. רוּץ &c.—ה a formative prefix of verbal nouns, e.g. הֶסְפֵּד, הוֹלָכָה &c.

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword without dagesh, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 7:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.7/#tree)

בָּאתַ֣ר דְּנָה֩ חָזֵ֨ה הֲוֵ֜ית בְּחֶזְוֵ֣י לֵֽילְיָ֗א וַאֲר֣וּ חֵיוָ֣ה רְֽבִיעָאָ֡ה דְּחִילָה֩ וְאֵֽימְתָנִ֨י וְתַקִּיפָ֜א יַתִּ֗ירָא וְשִׁנַּ֨יִן דִּֽי־פַרְזֶ֥ל לַהּ֙ רַבְרְבָ֔ן אָֽכְלָ֣ה וּמַדֱּקָ֔ה וּשְׁאָרָ֖א בְּרַגְלַ֣הּ רָפְסָ֑ה וְהִ֣יא מְשַׁנְּיָ֗ה מִן־כָּל־חֵֽיוָתָא֙ דִּ֣י קָֽדָמַ֔יהּ וְקַרְנַ֥יִן עֲשַׂ֖ר לַֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* after this seeing I.was in the.visions of the.night and lo! a.beast fourth \[was\].terrible and terrible and strong exceedingly and teeth (diy).of iron \[were\].to it great \[it.was\].devouring and \[it.was\].shattering and the rest with foot its \[it.was\].trampling and it \[was\].different from all the beasts which \[were\].before it and horns ten \[were\].to it

*JPS 1917:* After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet; and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d4_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5bc/): 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).