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# נִיחוֹחַ

Biblical Aramaic

**soothing** — used 2 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

soothing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b4_5d9_5d7_5d5_5b9_5d7_5b7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נִיחוֹחַ: soothing, tranquillizing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b4_5d9_5d7_5d5_5b9_5d7_5b7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. \[m.\] soothing, tranquillizing (prob. Hebraism, v. BH id., √ נוּחַ (√ also 𝔗 Syriac));—pl. נִיח(וֹ)חִין Ezr 6:10; Dn 2:46 i.e. soothing offerings.

### Jastrow 1903

נִיחוֹחַ: pleasing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b4_5d9_5d7_5d5_5b9_5d7_5b7/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** pleasing. Koh. R. to IX, 7 כריח נ׳ like the pleasing flavor (of a sacrifice); a. e.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezra 6:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.10/#tree)

דִּֽי־לֶהֱוֺ֧ן מְהַקְרְבִ֛ין נִיחוֹחִ֖ין לֶאֱלָ֣הּ שְׁמַיָּ֑א וּמְצַלַּ֕יִן לְחַיֵּ֥י מַלְכָּ֖א וּבְנֽוֹהִי׃

*Word for word:* that they.will.be offering soothing.offerings to the.God of the.heavens and praying for the.life(s) of the.king and sons his

*JPS 1917:* that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savour unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

[Daniel 2:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.46/#tree)

בֵּ֠אדַיִן מַלְכָּ֤א נְבֽוּכַדְנֶצַּר֙ נְפַ֣ל עַל־אַנְפּ֔וֹהִי וּלְדָנִיֵּ֖אל סְגִ֑ד וּמִנְחָה֙ וְנִ֣יחֹחִ֔ין אֲמַ֖ר לְנַסָּ֥כָה לֵֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* then the king Nebuchadnezzar he.fell on face his and to Daniel he.paid.homage and offering and soothing.offerings he.said to offer.in.sacrifice to him

*JPS 1917:* Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odours unto him.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b4_5d9_5d7_5d5_5b9_5d7_5b7/): 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).