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# לֵוָי

Biblical Aramaic

**Levite** — used 4 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

Levite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b5_5d5_5b8_5d9/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לֵוָי: gent. Levite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b5_5d5_5b8_5d9/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. gent. Levite (BH לֵוִי);—pl. emph. לויא Kt, לְוָאֵי Qr (K§§ 61, 6); 52. d), Ezr 6:16, 18; 7:13, 24 (all + priests).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (4).

## In the verses

[Ezra 6:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.16/#tree)

וַעֲבַ֣דוּ בְנֵֽי־יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל כָּהֲנַיָּ֨א וְלֵוָיֵ֜א וּשְׁאָ֣ר בְּנֵי־גָלוּתָ֗א חֲנֻכַּ֛ת בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֥א דְנָ֖ה בְּחֶדְוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.made the.people of.Israel the priests and the Levites and the.rest of.the.people of the.exile the.dedication of.the.house of.(the) God this with joy

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.

[Ezra 6:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.18/#tree)

וַהֲקִ֨ימוּ כָהֲנַיָּ֜א בִּפְלֻגָּתְה֗וֹן וְלֵוָיֵא֙ בְּמַחְלְקָ֣תְה֔וֹן עַל־עֲבִידַ֥ת אֱלָהָ֖א דִּ֣י בִירוּשְׁלֶ֑ם כִּכְתָ֖ב סְפַ֥ר מֹשֶֽׁה׃פ

*Word for word:* and they.appointed the priests in divisions their and the Levites in classes their over the.service of.(the) God which \[is\].in Jerusalem according to.the.writing of.the.book of.Moses

*JPS 1917:* And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5dc_5b5_5d5_5b8_5d9.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b5_5d5_5b8_5d9/): 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).