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# נְדַב

Biblical Aramaic

**volunteer** — 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

volunteer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d3_5b7_5d1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְדַב: vb. volunteer, offer freely [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d3_5b7_5d1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. volunteer, offer freely (𝔗; BH נָדַב);—Pf. 3 mpl. הִתְנַדַּ֫בוּ Ezr 7:15; Inf. הִתְנִדָּבוּת v 16; Pt. מִתְנַדַּב v 13; pl. -דְּבִין v 16;— volunteer, sq. inf., Ezr 7:13. give, or offer freely, v 15, acc. rei + ל of God; v 16, c. ל of temple; freewill gift (inf., proposes freewill giving) v 16.

### Jastrow 1903

נְדַב: Pa Ithpa. to donate; to be devoted to [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d3_5b7_5d1/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , ch. Pa. נַדֵּב, Ithpa. אִתְנַדֵּב, אִינַּ׳ same, to donate; to be devoted to. Targ. Is. XIII, 2 מְנַדְּבִין ed. Lag. (oth. ed. מִתְנַ׳; h. text נדיבים). Targ. Ps. CX, 3.—Pes. 50ᵃ מתעתרי … ומִתְנַדְּבֵי Israelites will grow rich and offer donations. Arakh. 6ᵇ אינ׳ שרגא וכ׳ donated a lamp &c.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[one who\] volunteers (1); \[who have\] offered freely (1); the freewill offering (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 7:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.15/#tree)

וּלְהֵיבָלָ֖ה כְּסַ֣ף וּדְהַ֑ב דִּֽי־מַלְכָּ֣א וְיָעֲט֗וֹהִי הִתְנַדַּ֙בוּ֙ לֶאֱלָ֣הּ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל דִּ֥י בִֽירוּשְׁלֶ֖ם מִשְׁכְּנֵֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and to carry silver and gold which the king and counselors his they.have.offered.freely to the.God of.Israel who \[is\].in Jerusalem abode his

*JPS 1917:* and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,

[Ezra 7:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.16/#tree)

וְכֹל֙ כְּסַ֣ף וּדְהַ֔ב דִּ֣י תְהַשְׁכַּ֔ח בְּכֹ֖ל מְדִינַ֣ת בָּבֶ֑ל עִם֩ הִתְנַדָּב֨וּת עַמָּ֤א וְכָֽהֲנַיָּא֙ מִֽתְנַדְּבִ֔ין לְבֵ֥ית אֱלָהֲהֹ֖ם דִּ֥י בִירוּשְׁלֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and all \[the\].silver and.\[the\] gold which you.will.find in all the.province of.Babylon with the.freewill.offering of the.people and the priests \[who.have\].offered.freely for the.house of their.God which \[is\].in Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* and all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill-offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d3_5b7_5d1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d3_5b7_5d1/): 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).