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# לְוָת

Biblical Aramaic

**to** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

to [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d5_5b8_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לְוָת: prep. to, at, beside [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d5_5b8_5ea/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** prep. to, at, beside (der. uncertain; v.K 128 n.; perhaps akin to לָוָה, לְוִי, ܠܘܺܝ join; 𝔗 לְוָת, Syriac ܠܘܳܬ to), c. מִן, Ezr 4:12 the Jews which came up מִן־לְוָתָךְ from thee (de chez toi; cf. ܡܶܢ ܠܘܳܬ, מִלְּוַת, e.g. Ex 8:8; 9:33 𝔖 𝔗 = Heb. מֵעִם).

### Jastrow 1903

לְוָת: unto; with unto me, unto thee from the presence of [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d5_5b8_5ea/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (v. יַת, כְּוָת)unto; with. Targ. Gen. II, 19 לְוַת (constr.); a. v. fr.—With suff. לְוָתִי, לְוָתָךְ &c. unto me, unto thee &c. Ib. XXXIX, 15, sq. (h. text אֵצֶל); a. v. fr.—מִלְּוַת from the presence of. Targ. Ex. IX, 33; a. e.—B. Kam. 111ᵇ; B. Mets. 62ᵇ bot. כי שכיבנא … נפק לוותי when I die, R. O. shall come to meet me; a. fr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: beside (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 4:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.12/#tree)

יְדִ֙יעַ֙ לֶהֱוֵ֣א לְמַלְכָּ֔א דִּ֣י יְהוּדָיֵ֗א דִּ֤י סְלִ֙קוּ֙ מִן־לְוָתָ֔ךְ עֲלֶ֥ינָא אֲת֖וֹ לִירוּשְׁלֶ֑ם קִרְיְתָ֨א מָֽרָדְתָּ֤א וּבִֽישְׁתָּא֙בָּנַ֔יִן וְשׁוּרַיָּ֣א שַׁכְלִ֔ילוּ וְאֻשַּׁיָּ֖א יַחִֽיטוּ׃

*Word for word:* known let.it.be to the king (diy).that the Jews who they.came.up from beside you to us they.have.come to Jerusalem the city (the) rebellious and (the) evil \[they.are\].building and the walls they.have.finished and the foundations they.are.repairing

*JPS 1917:* be it known unto the king, that the Jews that came up from thee are come to us unto Jerusalem; they are building the rebellious and the bad city, and have finished the walls, and are digging out the foundations.

## In Targum Onkelos

Number 65 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 92 times there, in the forms לְוָת (54); לְוָתִי (32); וּלְוָת (6).

[Genesis 44:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.21/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וַאֲמַרְתָּ לְעַבְדָּיךְ אֲחִיתוֹהִי לְוָתִי וֶאֱשַׁוֵּי עֵינִי עֲלוֹהִי

וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־עֲבָדֶ֔יךָ הוֹרִדֻ֖הוּ אֵלָ֑י וְאָשִׂ֥ימָה עֵינִ֖י עָלָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and you.said to servants your bring him.down to me so that.I.may.set eye my on him

*JPS 1917:* And thou saidst unto thy servants: Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.

[Genesis 15:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.15/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וְאַתְּ תֵעוֹל לְוָת אַבָהָתָךְ בִּשְׁלָם תִּתְקְבַר בְּסֵיבוּ טָבָא

וְאַתָּ֛ה תָּב֥וֹא אֶל־אֲבֹתֶ֖יךָ בְּשָׁל֑וֹם תִּקָּבֵ֖ר בְּשֵׂיבָ֥ה טוֹבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and you you.will.go to ancestors your in peace you.will.be.buried in old.age good

*JPS 1917:* But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d5_5b8_5ea.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d5_5b8_5ea/): 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).