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# נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר

Biblical Aramaic

**Nebuchadnezzar** — used 31 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

Nebuchadnezzar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5d5_5bc_5db_5b7_5d3_5b0_5e0_5b6_5e6_5b7_5bc_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5d5_5bc_5db_5b7_5d3_5b0_5e0_5b6_5e6_5b7_5bc_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (= BH -רֶאצַּר, etc.);—Dn 2:28 + 23 times Dn, Ezr 5:12, 14; 6:5; נְבֻכ׳ Dn 3:3 + 3 times Dn.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Nebuchadnezzar (28); O Nebuchadnezzar (2); of Nebuchadnezzar (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.25/#tree)

כֹּ֣לָּא מְּטָ֔א עַל־נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֖ר מַלְכָּֽא׃פ

*Word for word:* (the) everything it.came on Nebuchadnezzar the king

*JPS 1917:* All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.

[Daniel 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.9/#tree)

עֲנוֹ֙ וְאָ֣מְרִ֔ין לִנְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֖ר מַלְכָּ֑א מַלְכָּ֖א לְעָלְמִ֥ין חֱיִֽי׃

*Word for word:* they.replied and.\[were\] saying to Nebuchadnezzar the king O king forever live!

*JPS 1917:* They spoke and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king: 'O king, live for ever!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5d5_5bc_5db_5b7_5d3_5b0_5e0_5b6_5e6_5b7_5bc_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5d5_5bc_5db_5b7_5d3_5b0_5e0_5b6_5e6_5b7_5bc_5e8/): 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).