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# חֲרַץ

Biblical Aramaic

**loin** — 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

loin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e8_5b7_5e5/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲרַץ: loin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e8_5b7_5e5/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] loin (v. BH חָלָץ, √ II. \[חָלַץ\]);—sf. חַרְצֵהּ Dn 5:6 the joints of his loin (v. קְטַר).

### Jastrow 1903

חֲרַץ: to cut into to be cut into [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e8_5b7_5e5/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , to cut into. Part. pass. חָרִיץ. Gitt. 20ᵃ רושמא מִיחֲרַץ ח׳ וכ׳ is the stamp of a coin dug into (are the devices formed with a loss of substance), or is it pressed into (by compressing the substance)?—Bekh. 41ᵃ מיחרץ ח׳ (a dry scab is) cut into (deeper than the surface). to be cut into, v. supra.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.6/#tree)

אֱדַ֤יִן מַלְכָּא֙ זִיוֺ֣הִי שְׁנ֔וֹהִי וְרַעיֹנֹ֖הִייְבַהֲלוּנֵּ֑הּ וְקִטְרֵ֤י חַרְצֵהּ֙ מִשְׁתָּרַ֔יִן וְאַ֨רְכֻבָּתֵ֔הּ דָּ֥א לְדָ֖א נָֽקְשָֽׁן׃

*Word for word:* then the king brightness(es) his they changed.him and thoughts his they alarmed.him and the.joints of his.loin\[s\] \[were\].loosened and knees his this.\[one\] to this.\[one\] \[were\].knocking

*JPS 1917:* Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts affrighted him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e8_5b7_5e5.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e8_5b7_5e5/): 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).