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# טַבָּח

Biblical Aramaic

**guardsman** — 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

guardsman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1496/lemma_3a_5d8_5b7_5d1_5b8_5bc_5d7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טַבָּח: n.m. guardsman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1496/lemma_3a_5d8_5b7_5d1_5b8_5bc_5d7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. guardsman (v. BH id.; √ טבח);—pl. emph. טַבָּחַיָּא Dn 2:14.

### Jastrow 1903

טַבָּח: meat-dresser, butcher, cook [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1496/lemma_3a_5d8_5b7_5d1_5b8_5bc_5d7/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (preced.) meat-dresser, butcher, cook. Bets. 28ᵃ ט׳ אומן a professional butcher; a. fr.—Pl. טַבָּחִים. Kidd. IV, 14; a. e.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 2:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.14/#tree)

בֵּאדַ֣יִן דָּנִיֵּ֗אל הֲתִיב֙ עֵטָ֣א וּטְעֵ֔ם לְאַרְי֕וֹךְ רַב־טַבָּחַיָּ֖א דִּ֣י מַלְכָּ֑א דִּ֚י נְפַ֣ק לְקַטָּלָ֔ה לְחַכִּימֵ֖י בָּבֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* then Daniel he.sent.back counsel and discretion to Arioch the.chief the executioners (diy).of the king who he.went.out to kill (et).the wise.men of.Babylon

*JPS 1917:* Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and discretion to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, who was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d8_5b7_5d1_5b8_5bc_5d7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1496/lemma_3a_5d8_5b7_5d1_5b8_5bc_5d7/): 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).