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# חֶדְוָה

Biblical Aramaic

**joy** — 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

joy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5d3_5b0_5d5_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶדְוָה: n.f. joy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5d3_5b0_5d5_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. joy (𝔗 Syriac; v. BH II. חדה);—abs. בְּח׳ Ezr 6:16 with joy.

### Jastrow 1903

חֶדְוָה: joy, rejoicing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5d3_5b0_5d5_5b8_5d4/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** joy, rejoicing. Bets. 15ᵇ (ref. to Neh. VIII, 10) וקיימו מצות ח׳ Ar. (missing in ed.) and fulfill the law of festive rejoicing. Keth. 8ᵃ (in the wedding benediction).—V. חֶדְוָא 2).

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, only a cross-reference (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezra 6:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.16/#tree)

וַעֲבַ֣דוּ בְנֵֽי־יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל כָּהֲנַיָּ֨א וְלֵוָיֵ֜א וּשְׁאָ֣ר בְּנֵי־גָלוּתָ֗א חֲנֻכַּ֛ת בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֥א דְנָ֖ה בְּחֶדְוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.made the.people of.Israel the priests and the Levites and the.rest of.the.people of the.exile the.dedication of.the.house of.(the) God this with joy

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5d3_5b0_5d5_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5d3_5b0_5d5_5b8_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).