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# נוּר

Biblical Aramaic

**fire** — used 17 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

fire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5d5_5bc_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נוּר: n.f. et fire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5d5_5bc_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Dn 3:6 et m.7, 9 fire (𝔗 Syriac; v. √ נור BH);—abs. נ׳ Dn 3:27; 7:9(×2), 10; emph. נוּרָא 3:6 + 12 times 3.

### Jastrow 1903

נוּר ²: fire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5d5_5bc_5e8/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (v. נְהַר; cmp. מוּל a. מָהַל) fire. Targ. Job XVIII, 5; a. fr.—Ḥag. 13ᵇ, a. e. דינור, v. דִּינוּר. M. Kat. 12ᵇ, v. מַדְבּוּרָא. Ned. 62ᵇ עבדא דנ׳ a fire-worshipper (gheber). Ib. בי נ׳ fire temple, gheber-service; a. fr.—\[Lev. R. s. 27, a. e. בנור ובזפת, v. מַרְזוֹבוֹת.\]

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: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of (11); fire (2); the (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 3:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.11/#tree)

וּמַן־דִּי־לָ֥א יִפֵּ֖ל וְיִסְגֻּ֑ד יִתְרְמֵ֕א לְגֽוֹא־אַתּ֥וּן נוּרָ֖א יָקִֽדְתָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and whoever that not he.will.fall.down and he.will.pay.homage he.will.be.thrown to the.midst of.the.furnace of the.fire (the) burning

*JPS 1917:* and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

[Daniel 3:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.6/#tree)

וּמַן־דִּי־לָ֥א יִפֵּ֖ל וְיִסְגֻּ֑ד בַּהּ־שַׁעֲתָ֣א יִתְרְמֵ֔א לְגֽוֹא־אַתּ֥וּן נוּרָ֖א יָקִֽדְתָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and whoever that not he.will.fall.down and he.will.pay.homage at it the moment he.will.be.thrown to the.midst of.the.furnace of the.fire (the) burning

*JPS 1917:* and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5d5_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_5d5_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).