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# ה

Biblical Aramaic

**interrogative particle** — used 58 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

interrogative particle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4/#m1)

### Jastrow 1903

ה: He [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4/#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, 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: river (13); High (6); kingdom (4).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.30/#tree)

בֵּ֚הּ בְּלֵ֣ילְיָ֔א קְטִ֕יל בֵּלְאשַׁצַּ֖ר מַלְכָּ֥א כַשְׂדָּאָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* on it on the night he.was.killed Belshazzar the king the Chaldean

*JPS 1917:* In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.

[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

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4/): 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).