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# נִדְנֵה

Biblical Aramaic

**sheath** — 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

sheath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b4_5d3_5b0_5e0_5b5_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נִדְנֵ֑ה: sheath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b4_5d3_5b0_5e0_5b5_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (Mas Baer) n. \[m.\] sheath (𝔗 נְדָן, לְדָן; v. BH (late) נָדָן, Pers. loan-word);—רוּחִי … בְּגוֹ נ׳ Dn 7:15 my spirit in (its) sheath, i.e. my body; נִדְנָה emph., or sf. נִדְנַהּ (K§ 54. 3. β)); or (NöGGA. 1884, 1022 Bev) נְדָנַהּ; but expression at best strange; read prob. בְּגִין דְּנָה on account of this (בְּגִין as 𝔗J; D§ 47. 3 (2nd ed. 47. 10)), M72\* cf. Buhl Dr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (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: of \[the\] sheath (1).

## In the verses

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

אֶתְכְּרִיַּ֥ת רוּחִ֛י אֲנָ֥ה דָנִיֵּ֖אל בְּג֣וֹא נִדְנֶ֑ה וְחֶזְוֵ֥י רֵאשִׁ֖י יְבַהֲלֻנַּֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* it.was.distressed spirit my I Daniel in.\[the\] midst of.\[the\].sheath and the.visions of my.head they alarmed.me

*JPS 1917:* As for me Daniel, my spirit was pained in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head affrighted me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b4_5d3_5b0_5e0_5b5_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b4_5d3_5b0_5e0_5b5_5d4/): 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).