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# חֵיוָה

Biblical Aramaic

**declare** — used 20 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

declare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b5_5d9_5d5_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֵיוָא: n.f. beast [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b5_5d9_5d5_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. beast (BH ii. חַיָּה);—abs. א—ָ Dn 4:13, ה—ָ 7:5, 7; emph. חֵיוְתָא 7:6, 11, 19, 23, and (coll.) 4:11, 12; 5:21; cstr. (coll.) חֵיוַת בָּרָא 2:38; 4:9, 18, 20, 22, 29; pl. abs. חֵיוָן 7:3, emph. חֵיוָתָא 7:7, 12, 17.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (9); the animal\[s\] (6); a beast (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 7:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.3/#tree)

וְאַרְבַּ֤ע חֵיוָן֙ רַבְרְבָ֔ן סָלְקָ֖ן מִן־יַמָּ֑א שָׁנְיָ֖ן דָּ֥א מִן־דָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and four beasts great \[were\].coming.up from the sea \[they.were\].different this.\[one\] from this.\[one\]

*JPS 1917:* And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

[Daniel 7:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.17/#tree)

אִלֵּין֙ חֵיוָתָ֣א רַבְרְבָתָ֔א דִּ֥י אִנִּ֖ין אַרְבַּ֑ע אַרְבְּעָ֥ה מַלְכִ֖ין יְקוּמ֥וּן מִן־אַרְעָֽא׃

*Word for word:* these the beasts (the) great which they \[are\].four four kings they.will.arise from the earth

*JPS 1917:* 'These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, that shall arise out of the earth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b5_5d9_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_5b5_5d9_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).