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# נְטַר

Biblical Aramaic

**keep** — 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

keep [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d8_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְטַר: vb. keep [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d8_5b7_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. keep (𝔗 Syriac; v. BH I. נצר, and (rarely) נָטַר);— Pf. 1 s. מִלְּתָא בְּלִבִּי נִטְרֵת Dn 7:28.

### Jastrow 1903

נְטַר: to guard, wait; to observe; to reserve to be guarded; to be reserved to keep watch Pe to be preserved [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d8_5b7_5e8/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , to guard, wait; to observe; to reserve. Targ. I Sam. XXX, 23, sq. Targ. Deut. V, 10. Targ. Ruth I, 13; a. fr.—Imper. טַר, pl. טְרוּ. Targ. O. Deut. V, 12. Ib. XXVII, 1 (Y. טוּרוּ); a. e.—Part. pass. נְטִיר, f. נְטִירָא; pl. נְטִירִין; נְטִירָן. Targ. I Sam. IX, 24; a. fr.—Targ. Y. Deut. V, 10 נְטִיר read: נָטֵיר.—B. Bath. 74ᵃ נְטַר עד וכ׳ wait here until to-morrow. B. Mets. 63ᵇ; 65ᵃ, v. אַגְרָא I.—Ḥag. 5ᵃ, v. infra. same. Keth. 37ᵃ מְנַטְּרָא נפשה (not מינ׳) she guarded herself (her purity).—\[Yalk. Job 898 קמנטר תאני, read as Ḥag. l. c. מְנַקֵּיט.\]—Part. pass. מְנַטַּר, f. מְנַטְּרָא, v. infra. , אִינְּ׳ to be guarded; to be reserved. Targ. Hos. XII, 14. Targ. Y. Ex. XXIV, 11; a. fr.—Bets. 15ᵃ מִנְּטַר מחמת כלבי ולא מִינְטַר וכ׳ (or מְנַטַּר) Ms. M. (ed. מְנַטְּרָא) it is safe from dogs, but not from thieves.— to keep watch. Targ. Prov. VI, 22 (perh. to be read תִּנְטַר Pe.). to be preserved. Ḥag. 5ᵃ הני מִינַּטְּרָן והני לא מִינַּטְּרָן Ms. M. a. Rashi (ed. נטרן, corr. acc.) these (the unripe figs) can be kept, but those (the ripe) cannot; Yalk. Job 898 מנטרן.

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 (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 7:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.28/#tree)

עַד־כָּ֖ה סוֹפָ֣א דִֽי־מִלְּתָ֑א אֲנָ֨ה דָֽנִיֵּ֜אל שַׂגִּ֣יא ׀ רַעְיוֹנַ֣י יְבַהֲלֻנַּ֗נִי וְזִיוַי֙ יִשְׁתַּנּ֣וֹן עֲלַ֔י וּמִלְּתָ֖א בְּלִבִּ֥י נִטְרֵֽת׃פ

*Word for word:* \[is\].to here the end (diy).of the matter I Daniel exceedingly thoughts my they alarmed.me and brightness(es) my they.were.changed on me and the matter in heart my I.have.kept

*JPS 1917:* Here is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my thoughts much affrighted me, and my countenance was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d8_5b7_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_5d8_5b7_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).