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# זְעֵיר

Biblical Aramaic

**little** — 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

little [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e2_5b5_5d9_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זְעֵיר: adj. little, small [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e2_5b5_5d9_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. little, small;—fs. קֶרֶן זְעֵירָה Dn 7:8.

### Jastrow 1903

זְעֵיר II: small, young, tender; lesser; little [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e2_5b5_5d9_5e8/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (preced.) small, young, tender; lesser; a little. Targ. Gen. I, 16. Targ. O. ib. XLIV, 25.—Targ. Gen. XIX, 31; a. fr.—Y. Ber. II, 4ᵇ ז׳ לא … דרבה the inferior does not greet the superior; Y. Shek. II, 47ᵃ top דז׳ (not ר׳ ז׳).—Y. Snh. III, 21ᵃ bot. משום דזעיר מיניה in behalf of one his junior. Y. Keth. V, beg. 29ᶜ ומר ז׳ and said something small (insignificant). Ib. והדא היא ז׳ is this something small?; a. fr.—זְעִירִין, זְעֵירַיָּא. Targ. Y. Ex. XII, 4. Targ. Ps. CXV, 13; a. fr.—Y. M. Kat. III, 82ᵈ top והוא שאיל לז׳ and he asked the inferior (scholars)?—Fem. זְעֵירָן, זְעֵירָתָא. Targ. O. Gen. XXXII, 10.—Targ. Ps. CIV, 25 (Ms. זוטרתא).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 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 (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 7:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.8/#tree)

מִשְׂתַּכַּ֨ל הֲוֵ֜ית בְּקַרְנַיָּ֗א וַ֠אֲלוּ קֶ֣רֶן אָחֳרִ֤י זְעֵירָה֙ סִלְקָ֣ת בֵּֽינֵיהֵ֔ן וּתְלָ֗ת מִן־קַרְנַיָּא֙ קַדְמָ֣יָתָ֔א אֶתְעֲקַ֖רָה מִן־קֳדָמַ֑הּ וַאֲל֨וּ עַיְנִ֜ין כְּעַיְנֵ֤י אֲנָשָׁא֙ בְּקַרְנָא־דָ֔א וּפֻ֖ם מְמַלִּ֥ל רַבְרְבָֽן׃

*Word for word:* considering I.was (in) the horns and lo! a.horn another small it.came.up between them and three of the horns (the) former they.were.uprooted from before it and lo! eyes like the.eyes of.(the) humankind \[were\].on the horn this and a.mouth speaking great.\[things\]

*JPS 1917:* I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots; and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e2_5b5_5d9_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e2_5b5_5d9_5e8/): 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).