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# נְדַד

Biblical Aramaic

**flee** — 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

flee [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d3_5b7_5d3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְדַד: vb. flee [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d3_5b7_5d3/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. flee (v. BH I. נדד);— Pf. 3 fs. שִׁנְּתֵהּ נַדַּת עֲלוֹהִי (K§ 46. Beisp. a)) Dn 6:19.

### Jastrow 1903

נְדַד: to be restless, flee Af. driven about to make sleep flee, to keep awake to cause to be sleepless to be restless, agitated [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d3_5b7_5d3/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , to be restless, flee. Targ. Job VII, 4. Targ. Ps. LV, 8. Targ. Esth. VI, 1 נָדַת; a. fr. same.Targ. Job XV, 23 (some ed. מַנְדַּד part. pass. Af. driven about). to make (sleep) flee, to keep awake. Targ. Esth. l. c. נַדֵּיד ed. Lag. (ed. Amst. נְדַד; oth. ed. נַדֵּי; corr. acc.). to cause to be sleepless. Targ. II Esth. l. c. to be restless, agitated. Ib.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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 agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.19/#tree)

אֱ֠דַיִן אֲזַ֨ל מַלְכָּ֤א לְהֵֽיכְלֵהּ֙ וּבָ֣ת טְוָ֔ת וְדַחֲוָ֖ן לָא־הַנְעֵ֣ל קָֽדָמ֑וֹהִי וְשִׁנְתֵּ֖הּ נַדַּ֥ת עֲלֽוֹהִי׃

*Word for word:* then he.went the king to palace his and he.passed.the.night fasting and diversions not he.brought.in before him and sleep his it.fled on him

*JPS 1917:* Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were diversions brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d3_5b7_5d3.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_5d3/): 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).