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# לֵילֵי

Biblical Aramaic

**night** — 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

night [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b5_5d9/#m1)

### Jastrow 1903

לֵילֵי

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , v. לֵילָא

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 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, only a cross-reference (15 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (3); of (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.30/#tree)

בֵּ֚הּ בְּלֵ֣ילְיָ֔א קְטִ֕יל בֵּלְאשַׁצַּ֖ר מַלְכָּ֥א כַשְׂדָּאָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* on it on the night he.was.killed Belshazzar the king the Chaldean

*JPS 1917:* In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.

[Daniel 2:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.19/#tree)

אֱדַ֗יִן לְדָנִיֵּ֛אל בְּחֶזְוָ֥א דִֽי־לֵילְיָ֖א רָזָ֣ה גֲלִ֑י אֱדַ֙יִן֙ דָּֽנִיֵּ֔אל בָּרִ֖ךְ לֶאֱלָ֥הּ שְׁמַיָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* then to Daniel in the vision (diy).of the night the secret it.was.revealed then Daniel he.blessed (et).the God of the.heavens

*JPS 1917:* Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5dc_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b5_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_5d9_5dc_5b5_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).