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# כְּנֵמָא

Biblical Aramaic

**accordingly** — used 5 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

accordingly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b5_5de_5b8_5d0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּנֵ֫מָא: adv. accordingly, as follows [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b5_5de_5b8_5d0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adv. accordingly, as follows (der. uncertain: NöGGA, 1884, 1021 Marti al. from כֵּן + indef. מָא, so somewhat, ungefähr so: v. older improb. view (as we should say, from כְּ and נֵימָא = נֵאמַר, cf. Talm. יֵימָא for יֵימַר) in Thes652): referring backwards, Ezr 6:13 כְּנֵמָא … עֲבַדוּ did accordingly; referring forwards, 4:8 כְנֵמָא כְּתַבוּ … wrote a letter … as follows, 5:4 (read c. 𝔊 אֲמַרוּ; אֲמַרְנָא from v 9, MeyEntst. J. 26), v 9, 11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 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: as follows (4); accordingly (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 5:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.4/#tree)

אֱדַ֥יִן כְּנֵ֖מָא אֲמַ֣רְנָא לְּהֹ֑ם מַן־אִנּוּן֙ שְׁמָהָ֣ת גֻּבְרַיָּ֔א דִּֽי־דְנָ֥ה בִנְיָנָ֖א בָּנַֽיִן׃

*Word for word:* then as.follows we.said to them what? \[are\].they the.names of the.men who this the building \[are\].building

*JPS 1917:* 'Then spoke we unto them after this manner, wrote they: What are the names of the men that build this building?'

[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_5db_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b5_5de_5b8_5d0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b5_5de_5b8_5d0/): 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).