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# מִנְיָן

Biblical Aramaic

**number** — 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

number [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e0_5b0_5d9_5b8_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִנְיָן: number [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e0_5b0_5d9_5b8_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. \[m.\] number;—cstr. מ׳ Ezr 6:17.

### Jastrow 1903

מִנְיָן: number, count; ballot, vote the requisite number of males for congregational worship [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e0_5b0_5d9_5b8_5df/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** number, count; ballot, vote. B. Mets. 6ᵇ; Bekh. 59ᵇ, a. e. מ׳ הראוי פוטר a count properly begun redeems, i.e. if one began to count ten or more animals for tithing purposes, and during the count one animal died or ran off, those which passed the rod are redeemed. Ib. איפטרו להו במ׳ הראוי they were redeemed by means of the (interrupted) count properly begun.—רוב המ׳, רוב מִנְיָנוֹ, v. בִּנְיָן.—Bets. 3ᵇ דבר שישנו במ׳ Ms. M. (ed. דבר שבמ׳); Zeb. 73ᵃ דבר שיש בו מ׳ objects sold by the piece.—Y. Ber. I, 3ᵃ top נעמוד על המ׳ let us decide by vote; Tosef. Ohol. IV, 2 נעמוד למ׳. Eduy. I, 5, a. fr. גדול … בחכמה ובמ׳ superior to a previous meeting of scholars in learning and numbers. Bets. 5ᵃ כל דבר שבמ׳ צריך מ׳ וכ׳ a prohibitory measure passed by ballot, requires another ballot to be abrogated (although the reason for the measure has ceased to exist). Snh. 26ᵃ קשר … אינו מן המ׳ a measure passed in a meeting of wicked men does not count (deserves no consideration on the part of successors). Ḥull. 97ᵇ אין … מן המ׳ does not count, is not included.—Num. R. s. 1 במִנְיַן ישראל at the census of the Israelites in the desert; a. fr.—\[In later Hebrew: מ׳ the requisite number of males for congregational worship.\]

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 (10 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezra 6:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.17/#tree)

וְהַקְרִ֗בוּ לַחֲנֻכַּת֮ בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֣א דְנָה֒ תּוֹרִ֣ין מְאָ֔ה דִּכְרִ֣ין מָאתַ֔יִן אִמְּרִ֖ין אַרְבַּ֣ע מְאָ֑ה וּצְפִירֵ֨י עִזִּ֜ין לְחַטָּאָ֤ה עַל־כָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ תְּרֵֽי־עֲשַׂ֔ר לְמִנְיָ֖ן שִׁבְטֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and they.offered for the.dedication of.the.house of.(the) God this bulls one.hundred rams two.hundred lambs four hundred and he-goats of.goats for a.sin.offering on all Israel two.plus ten to the.number of.the.tribes of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And they offered at the dedication of this house of God a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e0_5b0_5d9_5b8_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e0_5b0_5d9_5b8_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).