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# וְ

Biblical Aramaic

**and** — used 731 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

and [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1493/lemma_3a_5d5_5b0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

וְ: conj. and used mostly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1493/lemma_3a_5d5_5b0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** conj. and (BH וְ), used mostly as in Heb., except that there is no ו ‘consecutive’;—and, connecting both words (Dn 2:5) and sentences (ib.). When three or more words are connected together, וְ may connect them all (Dn 2:6, 10; 4:34; 5:18), or only the two last (2:17; 3:4; 4:4 Ezr 6:9), or the three last (Dn 2:37; 3:21), or be omitted altogether (2:27; 5:11, cf. 3:2 Ezr 4:9). וְ also connects vbs., in cases where BH would use וַ ·, as Dn 4:2; 5:29; 6:17, 25; in such cases a pf. is often followed by a ptcp., as Dn 2:7 עֲנוֹ וְאָֽמְרִין, so v 10; 3:9, 16, 24 +, hence in 2:5, 8, 15, 20 and often read prob. with Nö GGA 1884, 1021 עֲנָה וְאָמַר (for עָנֵה). Special senses:— and that Dn 4:10, 12, 20; Ezr 6:8, 9 (cf. Dn 2:16, 18); and also Dn 6:29; = with, 7:1. connecting contrasted ideas, but Dn 2:6; 3:6, 18; 4:4. = and so, Dn 2:49; 6:2, especially after imv. 2:4, 9, 24, or impf. 2:7. to express an intention Dn 5:2 וְיִשְׁתּוֹן that they might drink: after a command, etc., even with ptcp. or perf., nearly = that, 2:13; 6:2 (cf. K§ 102). introducing the pred. (cf. BH 5 c), Dn 7:20 וְקִרְנָא דִכֵּן וְעַיְנִין לַהּ and this horn, it had eyes; but the case is isolated, and del. prob. וְ with Marti.

### Jastrow 1903

וְ: and, but; but, is it indeed so? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1493/lemma_3a_5d5_5b0/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , a prefix, and, but; often introducing a question: but, is it indeed so? Ḥull. 2ᵃ וכל הכל וכ׳ is it so that wherever הַכֹּל is used, it means &c.? Ib. והא כתיב וכ׳ is it not written &c.?; a. fr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 44 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, 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 (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: and (661); and \[was\] (18);  (16).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.27/#tree)

תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה בְמֹֽאזַנְיָ֖א וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ חַסִּֽיר׃

*Word for word:* teqel you.have.been.weighed in the scales and you.have.been.found lacking

*JPS 1917:* TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

[Daniel 2:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.36/#tree)

דְּנָ֣ה חֶלְמָ֔א וּפִשְׁרֵ֖הּ נֵאמַ֥ר קֳדָם־מַלְכָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* this \[was\].the dream and interpretation its we.will.tell before the king

*JPS 1917:* This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d5_5b0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1493/lemma_3a_5d5_5b0/): 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).