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# חַד

Biblical Aramaic

**one** — used 14 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

one [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b7_5d3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַד: adj. one [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b7_5d3/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. one, a;—ms. ח׳ Dn 2:31 +; fs. חֲדָה Ezr 4:8 +;— one side Dn 7:5; n. om. 6:3; חֲדָה 2:9 = one and invariable (inevitable); כַּחֲדָה v 35 as one, altogether (so S-CK 3 𝔗, and late BH כְּאֶחָד Ezr 2:64 +); = ordinal, שְׁנַת חֲדָה first year 7:1; Ezr 5:13; 6:3; ח׳ = a certain one (τινὰ) Dn 7:16 (c. מִן partit.). a (indef. art.) c. subst. Dn 2:31; 6:18; 4:16 (v. שָׁעָה), Ezr 4:8; 6:2, חַד שִׁבְעָה Dn 3:19 = seven-fold (as Syriac: Nö§ 241 PS 1194; cf.Ex 16:5 𝔖), v. K§ 66, 2.

### Jastrow 1903

חַד II: one, singular, particular like one together, simultaneously singularly, very much, too much [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b7_5d3/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , חֲדָא c. = h. אֶחָד, one, singular, particular. Targ. Gen. I, 5; a. v. fr.—חד בשבא first day in the week. Targ. II Esth. III, 7.—Targ. Ps. XXVII, 4. Targ. Ez. XVIII, 10 (some ed. חדת); a. fr.—Y. Ab. Zar. I, 39ᵇ bot. בחד בשובא, v. supra. Meg. 11ᵃ, a. fr. חד … וחד וכ׳ one authority …, another authority &c. Ber. 28ᵃ חדא היא לך או חדת וכ׳ is this a unique subject to thee (the only thing learned from R. Joḥ.) or a novel (strange) thing?—Gitt. 44ᵃ; Bekh. 3ᵃ טפי חד one time more (eleven times the value of the sold object); a. v. fr.—\[Sabb. 67ᵃ bot. חד חד, v. חַרְחַר.\]—כַּחֲדָא \[like one,\] together, simultaneously. Targ. Ps. II, 2; a. fr.—לַחֲדָא singularly, very much, too much. Targ. Gen. I, 31. Targ. Ps. CXIX, 8; a. fr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 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: one (12); \[is\] one (1); \[was\] one (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 4:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.8/#tree)

רְח֣וּם בְּעֵל־טְעֵ֗ם וְשִׁמְשַׁי֙ סָֽפְרָ֔א כְּתַ֛בוּ אִגְּרָ֥ה חֲדָ֖ה עַל־יְרוּשְׁלֶ֑ם לְאַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥שְׂתְּא מַלְכָּ֖א כְּנֵֽמָא׃

*Word for word:* Rehum lord of.command and Shimshai the scribe they.wrote a.letter one concerning Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as.follows

*JPS 1917:* Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort —

[Ezra 5:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.13/#tree)

בְּרַם֙ בִּשְׁנַ֣ת חֲדָ֔ה לְכ֥וֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֖א דִּ֣י בָבֶ֑ל כּ֤וֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּא֙ שָׂ֣ם טְעֵ֔ם בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֥א דְנָ֖ה לִבְּנֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* nevertheless in year one of Cyrus the king (diy).of Babylon Cyrus the king he.made a.decree the.house of.(the) God this to build

*JPS 1917:* But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.

## In Targum Onkelos

Number 20 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 312 times there, in the forms חַד (185); חָד (96); וְחַד (12); בְּחַד (11); לְחַד (7).

[Numbers 7:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.16/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

צְפִיר בַּר עִזִּין חַד לְחַטָּאתָא

שְׂעִיר־עִזִּ֥ים אֶחָ֖ד לְחַטָּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* a.male.goat of.goats one to a.sin.offering

*JPS 1917:* one male of the goats for a sin-offering;

[Numbers 7:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.22/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

צְפִיר בַּר עִזִין חַד לְחַטָאתָא

שְׂעִיר־עִזִּ֥ים אֶחָ֖ד לְחַטָּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* a.male.goat of.goats one to a.sin.offering

*JPS 1917:* one male of the goats for a sin-offering;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b7_5d3.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b7_5d3/): 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).