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# מָרֵא

Biblical Aramaic

**lord** — used 4 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

lord [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e8_5b5_5d0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָרֵא: n.m. lord [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e8_5b5_5d0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. lord (𝔗 מָר, c. מָרֵי; Syriac ܡܳܪܶܐ, e. ܡܳܪܳܐ, ܡܳܪܝܳܐ, Egyptian Aramaic מרא (RÉSi. 361); Chr-Pal. ܡܐܪ, etc., SchulthLex. 115; Old Aramaic Nab. Palm. מר(א) (Lzb316); cf. n.pr. dei מרנא (μαρνα), god of Gaza, SAC77; also Arabic مَرْءٌ man, Sab. מרא man, lord HomChr 127; AA 293 RÉSi. 454, 2);—lord: of God, cstr. מ׳ שְׁמַיָּא Dn 5:23, מָרֵה מַלְכִין 2:47; of king, sf. מָֽרְאִי Kt (as Nab., SACl.c.; K§ 58, 1), Qr מָרִי (as Palm., SACl.c.) 4:16, 21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lord (2); O (1); the lord (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.21/#tree)

דְּנָ֥ה פִשְׁרָ֖א מַלְכָּ֑א וּגְזֵרַ֤ת עִלָּאָה֙ הִ֔יא דִּ֥י מְטָ֖ת עַל־מָרִ֥י מַלְכָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* this \[is\].the interpretation O king and.\[is\] the.decree of the.Most.High it which it.has.reached to lord my the king

*JPS 1917:* this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which is come upon my lord the king,

[Daniel 2:47](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.47/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.47/#tree)

עָנֵה֩ מַלְכָּ֨א לְדָנִיֵּ֜אל וְאָמַ֗ר מִן־קְשֹׁט֙ דִּ֣י אֱלָהֲכ֗וֹן ה֣וּא אֱלָ֧הּ אֱלָהִ֛ין וּמָרֵ֥א מַלְכִ֖ין וְגָלֵ֣ה רָזִ֑ין דִּ֣י יְכֵ֔לְתָּ לְמִגְלֵ֖א רָזָ֥ה דְנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].replying the king to Daniel and.\[was\] saying from truth (diy).that God your he \[is.the\].God of.gods and.\[the\] lord of.kings and \[one.who\].reveals secrets that you.have.been.able to reveal the secret this

*JPS 1917:* The king spoke unto Daniel, and said: 'Of a truth it is, that your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou hast been able to reveal this secret.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e8_5b5_5d0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e8_5b5_5d0/): 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).