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# כּוֹרֶשׁ

Biblical Aramaic

**Cyrus** — used 8 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

Cyrus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5bc_5d5_5b9_5e8_5b6_5e9_5c1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כּ֫וֹרֶשׁ: n.pr.m. Cyrus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5bc_5d5_5b9_5e8_5b6_5e9_5c1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Cyrus (BH id.);—Dn 6:28; Ezr 5:13 + 6 times Ezr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Cyrus (6); of Cyrus (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.29/#tree)

וְדָנִיֵּ֣אל דְּנָ֔ה הַצְלַ֖ח בְּמַלְכ֣וּת דָּרְיָ֑וֶשׁ וּבְמַלְכ֖וּת כּ֥וֹרֶשׁ פָּרְסָאָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and Daniel this he.prospered in the.reign of.Darius and in the.reign of.Cyrus the Persian

*JPS 1917:* So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

[Ezra 5:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.13/#tree)

בְּרַם֙ בִּשְׁנַ֣ת חֲדָ֔ה לְכ֥וֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֖א דִּ֣י בָבֶ֑ל כּ֤וֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּא֙ שָׂ֣ם טְעֵ֔ם בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֥א דְנָ֖ה לִבְּנֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* nevertheless in year one of Cyrus the king (diy).of Babylon Cyrus the king he.made a.decree the.house of.(the) God this to build

*JPS 1917:* But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5db_5bc_5d5_5b9_5e8_5b6_5e9_5c1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5bc_5d5_5b9_5e8_5b6_5e9_5c1/): 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).