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# מָזוֹן

Biblical Aramaic

**food** — used 2 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

food [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5d6_5d5_5b9_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָזוֹן: food [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5d6_5d5_5b9_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (K§ 15 a) n.\[m.\] food (𝔗 Syriac);—abs. מ׳ Dn 4:9, 18.

### Jastrow 1903

מָזוֹן: food, sustenance meal; alimentation mazon mazon mazon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5d6_5d5_5b9_5df/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** food, sustenance; meal; alimentation. Erub. III, 1 הנודר מן המ׳ וכ׳ he who vows abstinence from mazon (nourishment) is permitted to partake of water and salt. Ib. 30ᵃ; Ber. 35ᵇ מים ומלח הוא דלא איקרי מ׳ וכ׳ only water and salt are not called mazon, but all other food is included in mazon; Gen. R. s. 94, beg. Erub. VIII, 2 מ׳ ב׳ סעודות food for two meals. Ber. VIII, 8 לאחר המ׳ for the after-meal (dessert). Ib. מברך על המ׳ he says the grace after meal. Ib. 5 נר ומ׳ וכ׳ the benediction for the light, then for the meal, then for the spices &c.; Pes. 103ᵃ.—ברכת המ׳, v. בְּרָכָה.—Ber. VI, 8 והוא מְזוֹנוֹ and this was his meal.—Y. Yeb. XV, 14ᵈ bot. מ׳ האשה והבנות the alimentation of wife and daughters (after a man’s death). Ib. VII, 8ᵃ bot. מ׳ הבנות מדבריהן the obligation to support the daughters from a man’s estate is a Rabbinical enactment; a. fr.—Pl. מְזוֹנוֹת. Ber. 35ᵇ בורא מיני מ׳ (abbrev. במ"מ) (Blessed be he) who created various kinds of food. Keth. IV, 6 חייב במ׳ בתו bound to support his daughter. Ib. XI, 2 אין לה מ׳ she cannot claim alimentation. Ib. 3 למ׳ מכרתי I have sold (a portion of my widowhood) for my support. Ib. XII, 2 הבעל נותן לה מ׳ … דמי מ׳ her husband supports her, and they (the heirs) must give her the equivalent of her support; a. fr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (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, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.18/#tree)

וְעָפְיֵ֤הּ שַׁפִּיר֙ וְאִנְבֵּ֣הּ שַׂגִּ֔יא וּמָז֨וֹן לְכֹ֖לָּא־בֵ֑הּ תְּחֹת֗וֹהִי תְּדוּר֙ חֵיוַ֣ת בָּרָ֔א וּבְעַנְפ֕וֹהִי יִשְׁכְּנָ֖ן צִפֲּרֵ֥י שְׁמַיָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and foliage its \[was\].beautiful and fruit its \[was\].plentiful and food for.all \[was\].on it under it it.dwelt the.animal\[s\] of the.field and in branches its they.dwelt the.birds of the.heavens

*JPS 1917:* whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was food for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation;

[Daniel 4:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.9/#tree)

עָפְיֵ֤הּ שַׁפִּיר֙ וְאִנְבֵּ֣הּ שַׂגִּ֔יא וּמָז֨וֹן לְכֹ֖לָּא־בֵ֑הּ תְּחֹת֜וֹהִי תַּטְלֵ֣ל ׀ חֵיוַ֣ת בָּרָ֗א וּבְעַנְפ֙וֹהִי֙ יְדוּרָן֙ צִפֲּרֵ֣י שְׁמַיָּ֔א וּמִנֵּ֖הּ יִתְּזִ֥ין כָּל־בִּשְׂרָֽא׃

*Word for word:* foliage its \[was\].beautiful and fruit its \[was\].plentiful and food for.all \[was\].on it under it it.had.shade the.animal\[s\] of the.field and in branches its they.nested the.birds of the.heavens and from it it.fed all (the) flesh

*JPS 1917:* The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was food for all; the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the branches thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5d6_5d5_5b9_5df/): 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).