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# יַד

Biblical Aramaic

**hand** — used 17 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

hand [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b7_5d3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַד: n.f. hand [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b7_5d3/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Dn 5:2; hand (v. BH);—cstr. י׳ Ezr 5:12 +; emph. יְדָא Dn 5:5, 24; sf. יְדִי 3:15, יְדָךְ v 17, יְדֵהּ Ezr 6:12, יֶדְהֹם (K§ 53, 2. a)) 5:8, etc.; du. abs. בִּידַ֫יִן Dn 2:34, 45;— hand of man Dn 2:34, 45 Ezr 5:8; 6:12, and (in vision) Dn 5:5(×2), 24; fig. בִּידָךְ in thy possession Ezr 7:14, 25; fig. of God Dn 4:32. power, of man Dn 2:38; 3:15, 17; 7:28 Ezr 5:12, of God Dn 5:23; of lion 6:28 (al. paw).

### Jastrow 1903

יַד

**The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. Num. XXXV, 17; a. fr.—V. אִידָא.—Kidd. 30ᵃ top אַדְּיָדָךְ על וכ׳ while thy hand yet rests on thy son’s neck (as long as you have control over him). Ab. Zar. 15ᵃ אַיָּדָא דספסירא (= h. על ידי) through an agent; a. fr.—Pl. יָדִין, יָדַיָּא. Targ. Ez. XXI, 12 (ed. Wil. יְדֵין). Targ. Is. XIII, 7; a. fr.—עַל יַד, על יְדֵי, v. preced. Targ. Ps. LXXXIX, 20. Targ. Y. Num. XXXIII, 1; a. fr.—על יְדֵי ד־ = h. ע"י ש־. Targ. Y. II, Gen. XLIV, 18.—מִן יַד, מִיַּד, v. preced. Targ. Y. Gen. I, 3. Targ. Ps. LIX, 12; a. e.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hand (9); hands (3); the hand (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.24/#tree)

בֵּאדַ֙יִן֙ מִן־קֳדָמ֔וֹהִי שְׁלִ֖יַחַפַּסָּ֣א דִֽי־יְדָ֑א וּכְתָבָ֥א דְנָ֖ה רְשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* then from before him it.was.sent.out the palm (diy).of the hand and the writing this it.was.inscribed

*JPS 1917:* then was the palm of the hand sent from before Him, and this writing was inscribed.

[Daniel 6:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.28/#tree)

מְשֵׁיזִ֣ב וּמַצִּ֗ל וְעָבֵד֙ אָתִ֣ין וְתִמְהִ֔ין בִּשְׁמַיָּ֖א וּבְאַרְעָ֑א דִּ֚י שֵׁיזִ֣יב לְדָֽנִיֵּ֔אל מִן־יַ֖ד אַרְיָוָתָֽא׃

*Word for word:* \[he.is\].delivering and \[he.is\].rescuing and \[he.is\].doing signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth \[one\].who he.has.delivered (et) Daniel from the.hand of the.lions

*JPS 1917:* He delivereth and rescueth, and He worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth; who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d9_5b7_5d3.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_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).