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# יְרוּשְׁלֵם

Biblical Aramaic

**Jerusalem** — used 26 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

Jerusalem [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b0_5e8_5d5_5bc_5e9_5b0_5c1_5dc_5b5_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְרוּשְׁלֵם: n.pr.loc. Jerusalem [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b0_5e8_5d5_5bc_5e9_5b0_5c1_5dc_5b5_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Jerusalem (BH יְרוּשָׁלַםִ);—Dn 5:2, 3; 6:11; Ezr 4:8, 12 + 20 times Ezr.

### Jastrow 1903

יְרוּשְׁלֵם

**The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. Gen. XIV, 18 (h. text שלם). Targ. Josh. XII, 10; a. fr.—Ned. 50ᵃ י׳ דדהבא a golden head-band with the picture of Jerusalem on it; Sabb. 59ᵃ (expl. עיר של זהב).—Lam. R. to I, 1 רבתי (J. compared with Athens); a. fr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (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: Jerusalem (25); of Jerusalem (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 7:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.19/#tree)

וּמָֽאנַיָּא֙ דִּֽי־מִתְיַהֲבִ֣ין לָ֔ךְ לְפָלְחָ֖ן בֵּ֣ית אֱלָהָ֑ךְ הַשְׁלֵ֕ם קֳדָ֖ם אֱלָ֥הּ יְרוּשְׁלֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and the vessels which \[have.been\].given to you for the.worship of.the.house of your.God make.complete before the.God of.Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* And the vessels that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.

[Ezra 4:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.8/#tree)

רְח֣וּם בְּעֵל־טְעֵ֗ם וְשִׁמְשַׁי֙ סָֽפְרָ֔א כְּתַ֛בוּ אִגְּרָ֥ה חֲדָ֖ה עַל־יְרוּשְׁלֶ֑ם לְאַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥שְׂתְּא מַלְכָּ֖א כְּנֵֽמָא׃

*Word for word:* Rehum lord of.command and Shimshai the scribe they.wrote a.letter one concerning Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as.follows

*JPS 1917:* Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d9_5b0_5e8_5d5_5bc_5e9_5b0_5c1_5dc_5b5_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b0_5e8_5d5_5bc_5e9_5b0_5c1_5dc_5b5_5dd/): 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).