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# חֲנֻכָּה

Biblical Aramaic

**dedication** — used 4 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

dedication [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e0_5bb_5db_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲנֻכָּה: n.f. dedication [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e0_5bb_5db_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. dedication (𝔗; BH id., √ חנך);—cstr. חֲנֻכַּת, of image Dn 3:2, 3; temple Ezr 6:16, 17.

### Jastrow 1903

חֲנֻכָּה

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , v. חֲנוּכָּה

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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 not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the dedication (4).

## 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.

[Ezra 6:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.17/#tree)

וְהַקְרִ֗בוּ לַחֲנֻכַּת֮ בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֣א דְנָה֒ תּוֹרִ֣ין מְאָ֔ה דִּכְרִ֣ין מָאתַ֔יִן אִמְּרִ֖ין אַרְבַּ֣ע מְאָ֑ה וּצְפִירֵ֨י עִזִּ֜ין לְחַטָּאָ֤ה עַל־כָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ תְּרֵֽי־עֲשַׂ֔ר לְמִנְיָ֖ן שִׁבְטֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and they.offered for the.dedication of.the.house of.(the) God this bulls one.hundred rams two.hundred lambs four hundred and he-goats of.goats for a.sin.offering on all Israel two.plus ten to the.number of.the.tribes of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And they offered at the dedication of this house of God a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e0_5bb_5db_5b8_5bc_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e0_5bb_5db_5b8_5bc_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).