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# יזב

Biblical Aramaic

**deliver** — used 9 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

deliver [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5d6_5d1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׁיזִב: vb. deliver Shaph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5d6_5d1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. deliver (prob. Shaph. as loan-word from Assyrian šûzub(u), ušêzib, deliver, √ ezêbu (א4 = עזב), DlPr 140 HptGGN 1883, 91; BAS i. 13 K§ 43, 1, Anm.; 𝔗 שֵׁיזֵב, Syriac ܫܰܘܙܶܒ, Chr-Pal. ܫܘܙܒ SchulthLex. 203, also Nab. שיזב Cooke 255; cf. n.pr. מְשֵׁיזַבְאֵל BH; Old Aramaic צלמשזב SAC 102; v. also foll. art.);—Pf. 3 ms. שֵׁיזִב Dn 3:28; 6:28; Impf. 3 ms. יְשֵׁיזִ֑ב 3:17; sf. יְשֵׁיזְבִנָּךְ 6:17, נְכוֹן—ִ 3:15; Inf. sf. לְשֵׁיזָבוּתָךְ 6:21, -תֵהּ v 15, -תַ֑נָא 3:17;—deliver (usually c. מִן): Dn 3:17b, ל acc. pers. v 28; 6:28b, sf. pers. 3:15, 17a; 6:15, 17, 21, abs. v 28 a. Ptcp. מְשֵׁיזִב 6:28.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: deliver (3); he has delivered (2); \[he is\] delivering (1).

## In the verses

[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.'

[Daniel 3:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.17/#tree)

הֵ֣ן אִיתַ֗י אֱלָהַ֙נָא֙ דִּֽי־אֲנַ֣חְנָא פָֽלְחִ֔ין יָכִ֖ל לְשֵׁיזָבוּתַ֑נָא מִן־אַתּ֨וּן נוּרָ֧א יָקִֽדְתָּ֛א וּמִן־יְדָ֥ךְ מַלְכָּ֖א יְשֵׁיזִֽב׃

*Word for word:* if there \[is\].our God whom we \[are\].paying.reverence \[is\].being.able to deliver us from the.furnace of the.fire (the) burning and from hand your O king he.will.deliver

*JPS 1917:* If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, He will deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and out of thy hand, O king.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d9_5d6_5d1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5d6_5d1/): 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).