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# מִלָּה

Biblical Aramaic

**word** — used 24 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

word [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5dc_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִלָּה²: n.f. word, thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5dc_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. word, thing;—abs. מ׳ Dn 2:9 +, cstr. מִלַּת v 10 +; emph. מִלְּתָה v 5, א—ָ v 8 +; pl. abs. מִלִּין 7:1, 25, cstr. מִלֵּי 5:10, emph. מִלַּיָּא 7:11, 16;— word, utterance Dn 4:28; 6:15, pl. 5:10; 7:11, 25; in bad sense, מ׳ כִדְבָה וּשְׁחִיתָה 2:9, מִלַּיָּא רַבְרְבָתָא 7:11 (cf. רַבְרְבָן alone v 8:20); word of God’s judgment 4:30; = command 2:5, 8; 3:22, 28; 6:13. thing, affair, matter: 2:10(×2), 11, 15, 17, 23; 5:15, 26; 7:28(×2), pl. v 1, 16.

### Jastrow 1903

מִלָּה: word [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5dc_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** word. Lev. R. s. 16 (prov.) מ׳ בסלע משתוקא בשנים where a word is worth a Sela, silence is worth two; Meg. 18ᵃ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 1).—Pl. מִלִּין, מִי. Cant. R. to IV, 4, v. קָצַב; a. e.—Ch. מִלָּה, v. מִילָּא.\]

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 22 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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 (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (11); of (4); the matter (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.26/#tree)

דְּנָ֖ה פְּשַֽׁר־מִלְּתָ֑א מְנֵ֕א מְנָֽה־אֱלָהָ֥א מַלְכוּתָ֖ךְ וְהַשְׁלְמַֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* this \[is\].the.interpretation of the.matter mene he.has.numbered (the) God kingdom your and he has.finished.it

*JPS 1917:* This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.

[Daniel 2:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.17/#tree)

אֱדַ֥יִן דָּֽנִיֵּ֖אל לְבַיְתֵ֣הּ אֲזַ֑ל וְ֠לַחֲנַנְיָה מִֽישָׁאֵ֧ל וַעֲזַרְיָ֛ה חַבְר֖וֹהִי מִלְּתָ֥א הוֹדַֽע׃

*Word for word:* then Daniel to house his he.went and to Hananiah Mishael and Azariah companions his the matter he.made.known

*JPS 1917:* Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5dc_5b8_5bc_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5dc_5b8_5bc_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).