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Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917. ## Meaning ### OpenScriptures lexical index gather [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b7_5e9_5c1/#m1) ### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 כְּנַשׁ: vb. gather [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b7_5e9_5c1/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** vb. gather (𝔗 id.; Old Aramaic Palm. כנש Lzb298; Syriac ܟܢܰܫ; v. also BH \[כָּנַס\]);— Inf. לְמִכְנַשׁ, sq. ל acc. pers. Dn 3:2. Pt. pl. מִתְכַּנְּשִׁין (were) assembled 3:3, 27. ### Jastrow 1903 כְּנַשׁ: to gather, collect; to gather in to rake together, to sweep Pe to be gathered, to be called in; to retire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b7_5e9_5c1/#m3) **The whole Jastrow entry:** (v. preced.) to gather, collect; to gather in. Targ. Ex. XXXV, 1 (ed. Amst. כְּנַשׁ). Targ. Koh. II, 8. Targ. Is. XXIV, 22; a. fr.—Y. Maas. Sh. IV, end, 55ᶜ לית את כ׳ thou shalt not harvest; a. fr. (cmp. גבב) to rake together, to sweep. B. Mets. 85ᵃ קכַנְשָׁא ביתא Ms. M. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) was sweeping the house. Ḥull. 60ᵃ אתא … כַּנְשֵׁיה לימא a blast of wind came and swept it (the store of provision) into the sea. same. Targ. Mic. II, 12; a. e.—Lev. R. s. 25 היא מְכַנְּשָׁא להון she calls the chickens together. Y. Ber. IX, end 14ᵈ דמְכַנְּשִׁין, v. בְּדַר; a. e. same. Targ. Ez. XI, 17 (ed. Lag. אִיכְנֵישׁ Pe.); a. e. to be gathered, to be called in; to retire. Targ. Jud. XII, 1 (ed. Wil. … שׂ) Targ. Gen. XXV, 8. Targ. Jer. XLVII, 6; a. fr.—Koh. R. to IX, 10 אִתְכַּנְּשׁוּן כל קרייתא וכ׳ all the towns (people) met to mourn for him. Tanḥ. Ki Thetsé 4 טב ליה לצדיקא דאי׳ בשלם (not לצדיקיא) it is better for the righteous man to be gathered in (die) in peace; Pesik. Zakh., p. 23ᵃ טב ליה מִתְכְּנַשׁ בשלם; Yalk. Ps. 868 טב ליה לההיא סבא דמִתְכְּנִישׁ וכ׳. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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 agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates) ## Glosses MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[were\] gathered (1); gather (1); gathered (1). ## In the verses [Daniel 3:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.2/#tree) וּנְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֣ר מַלְכָּ֡א שְׁלַ֡ח לְמִכְנַ֣שׁ ׀ לַֽאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּ֡א סִגְנַיָּ֣א וּֽפַחֲוָתָ֡א אֲדַרְגָּזְרַיָּא֩ גְדָ֨בְרַיָּ֤א דְּתָבְרַיָּא֙ תִּפְתָּיֵ֔א וְכֹ֖ל שִׁלְטֹנֵ֣י מְדִֽינָתָ֑א לְמֵתֵא֙ לַחֲנֻכַּ֣ת צַלְמָ֔א דִּ֥י הֲקֵ֖ים נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֥ר מַלְכָּֽא׃ *Word for word:* and Nebuchadnezzar the king he.sent to gather (et) the satraps the prefects and the governors the counselors the ministers the judges the magistrates and all the.authorities of the.provinces to come to the.dedication of the.image which he.had.set.up Nebuchadnezzar the king *JPS 1917:* Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. [Daniel 3:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.3/#tree) בֵּאדַ֡יִן מִֽתְכַּנְּשִׁ֡ין אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּ֡א סִגְנַיָּ֣א וּֽפַחֲוָתָ֡א אֲדַרְגָּזְרַיָּ֣א גְדָבְרַיָּא֩ דְּתָ֨בְרַיָּ֜א תִּפְתָּיֵ֗א וְכֹל֙ שִׁלְטֹנֵ֣י מְדִֽינָתָ֔א לַחֲנֻכַּ֣ת צַלְמָ֔א דִּ֥י הֲקֵ֖ים נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֣ר מַלְכָּ֑א וְקָֽיְמִין֙ לָקֳבֵ֣ל צַלְמָ֔א דִּ֥י הֲקֵ֖ים נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּֽר׃ *Word for word:* then \[were\].gathered the satraps the prefects and the governors the counselors the ministers the judges the magistrates and all the.authorities of the.provinces for the.dedication of the.image which he.had.set.up Nebuchadnezzar the king and \[they.were\].standing (to) before the image which he.had.set.up Nebuchadnezzar *JPS 1917:* Then the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. ## On Mova - [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b7_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_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b7_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).