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# לְחֵנָה

Biblical Aramaic

**concubine** — used 3 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

concubine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d7_5b5_5e0_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לְחֵנָה: n.f. concubine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d7_5b5_5e0_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. concubine (𝔗 לְחֵינְתָא; FlLevy NHWB ii. 534 f. cp. Arabic لَخْنَا, indelicate epithet for woman; Batten Ezr 2:65 cp. Arabic لَحْنٌ note, tune, song; still otherwise WetzstDe, HL u. Koh. 454);—pl. sf. לְחֵנָתָךְ Dn 5:23, הּ—ֵ v 2, 3.

### Jastrow 1903

לְחֵנָה

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , v. sub לְחֵינ׳.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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, only a cross-reference (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: concubines (3).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.3/#tree)

בֵּאדַ֗יִן הַיְתִיו֙ מָאנֵ֣י דַהֲבָ֔א דִּ֣י הַנְפִּ֗קוּ מִן־הֵֽיכְלָ֛א דִּֽי־בֵ֥ית אֱלָהָ֖א דִּ֣י בִירֽוּשְׁלֶ֑ם וְאִשְׁתִּ֣יו בְּה֗וֹן מַלְכָּא֙ וְרַבְרְבָנ֔וֹהִי שֵׁגְלָתֵ֖הּ וּלְחֵנָתֵֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* then they.brought the.vessels of.(the) gold which they.had.brought.out from the temple which \[was\].the.house of.(the) God which \[was\].in Jerusalem and they.drank with them the king and nobles his wives his and concubines his

*JPS 1917:* Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his lords, his consorts and his concubines, drank in them.

[Daniel 5:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.2/#tree)

בֵּלְשַׁאצַּ֞ר אֲמַ֣ר ׀ בִּטְעֵ֣ם חַמְרָ֗א לְהַיְתָיָה֙ לְמָאנֵי֙ דַּהֲבָ֣א וְכַסְפָּ֔א דִּ֤י הַנְפֵּק֙ נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֣ר אֲבוּ֔הִי מִן־הֵיכְלָ֖א דִּ֣י בִירוּשְׁלֶ֑ם וְיִשְׁתּ֣וֹן בְּה֗וֹן מַלְכָּא֙ וְרַבְרְבָנ֔וֹהִי שֵׁגְלָתֵ֖הּ וּלְחֵנָתֵֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* Belshazzar he.said in the.taste of the.wine to bring (et).the vessels of.(the) gold and (the) silver which he.had.brought.out Nebuchadnezzar father his from the temple which \[was\].in Jerusalem so that.they.may.drink with them the king and nobles his wives his and concubines his

*JPS 1917:* Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his consorts and his concubines, might drink therein.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d7_5b5_5e0_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d7_5b5_5e0_5b8_5d4/): 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).