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# זוּן

Biblical Aramaic

**feed** — 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

feed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5d5_5bc_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זוּן: vb. feed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5d5_5bc_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. feed (𝔗 זוּן; Syriac ܙܳܢ; cf. BH);— be fed: Impf. יִתְּזִין (K§ 45, 1 d); so in Syriac WCG 254 NöLCB, 1896, 703) Dn 4:9, מִן of source.

### Jastrow 1903

זוּן: to provide, outfit; to sustain to feed. to feed the eye, to derive pleasure from sight to be fed, sustained to bless with plenty to outfit, decorate; to gird, arm Part. pass to arm one’s self, to fight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5d5_5bc_5df/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (cmp. זוד) to provide, outfit; to sustain, esp. to feed. Gitt. I, 6 שלא לָזוּן את וכ׳ not to sustain his slave. Ib. 12ᵃ איני זָנְךָ I will not support thee. Y. Keth. V, 29ᵈ top שתהא זוֹנְתוֹ ומפרנסתי (for זָנְתוֹ) that she should provide for all his wants. Sabb. 104ᵃ ז"ח ז̇ן … וח̇ן וכ׳ He supports and graces thee; a. fr.—Ber. 35ᵇ, a. e. כל הזן עלי I vow abstinence from whatever sustains the body.—Trnsf. to feed the eye, to derive pleasure from a sight (mostly of an illicit sight). Ohol. XIII, 4 one makes an opening in the wall לזון את עיניו for the sake of enjoying a view; Tosef. ib. XIV, 4. Pes. 26ᵃ כדי שלא יָזוּנוּ עיניהם וכ׳ that the laborers might not look at the Holy of Holies. Lev. R. s. 20 לא זן עיניו מן וכ׳ did not look at the Divine Majesty. Lev. R. s. 23, end ואינו זן וכ׳ and does not allow his eye to rest on an obscenity; a. fr. to be fed, sustained. Gitt. 12ᵇ נ׳ מן הצדקה must be supported from the public charity. Ib. (distinction betw. נ׳ a. התפרנס, v. פַּרְנֵס). Taan. 24ᵇ. Keth. XI, 1 נִיזּוֹנֶת מנכסי וכ׳ must be supported from the estate &c. to bless with plenty. Keth. 10ᵇ, v. זוּחַ II. to outfit, decorate; to gird, arm (cmp. זָוָוא I, a. P. Sm. 1102 sq.) Lev. R. s. 34 (ref. to יחליץ, Is. LVIII, 11) ישמוט יְזַיֵּין וכ׳ it has the meanings of ‘he will loosen’, ‘he will arm’, ‘he will rescue’, ‘he will give rest’.—Part. pass. מְזוּיָּן, מְזוּיָּין. B. Kam. 57ᵃ לסטים מ׳ a robber in arms; טוען טענת ל׳ מ׳ he pleads that he has been robbed by &c. Ib. 58ᵃ; a. e.—Pl. מְזוּיָּנִין. Ex. R. s. 20 (expl. חמשים, Ex. XXIII, 8) שעלו מ׳ they went out fully equipped; Mekh. B’shall., beg.; a. e. to arm one’s self, to fight. Tanḥ. Ki Thabo 3 מִזְדַּיֵּין על וכ׳ He goes to war in defense of him &c.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (16 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.9/#tree)

עָפְיֵ֤הּ שַׁפִּיר֙ וְאִנְבֵּ֣הּ שַׂגִּ֔יא וּמָז֨וֹן לְכֹ֖לָּא־בֵ֑הּ תְּחֹת֜וֹהִי תַּטְלֵ֣ל ׀ חֵיוַ֣ת בָּרָ֗א וּבְעַנְפ֙וֹהִי֙ יְדוּרָן֙ צִפֲּרֵ֣י שְׁמַיָּ֔א וּמִנֵּ֖הּ יִתְּזִ֥ין כָּל־בִּשְׂרָֽא׃

*Word for word:* foliage its \[was\].beautiful and fruit its \[was\].plentiful and food for.all \[was\].on it under it it.had.shade the.animal\[s\] of the.field and in branches its they.nested the.birds of the.heavens and from it it.fed all (the) flesh

*JPS 1917:* The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was food for all; the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the branches thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d6_5d5_5bc_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5d5_5bc_5df/): 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).