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# נְמַר

Biblical Aramaic

**leopard** — 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

leopard [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5de_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְמַר: leopard [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5de_5b7_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] leopard (v. BH);—abs. Dn 7:6.

### Jastrow 1903

נְמַר

**The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. Jer. V, 6; a. e.—Y. Peah III, 17ᶜ top (expl. המנמר ib. III, 2) כהדין נימרה making the field look checkered like a tiger (or leopard), v. נִמְרִירָה.—Pl. נִמְרִין, נִמְרַיָּא, נִי׳. Targ. Cant. IV, 8 (ed. Vien. נְמֵרִין). Targ. Hab. I, 8.—\[בית נמרי, בית נמרא, נמרין, v. next w.\]

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 7:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.6/#tree)

בָּאתַ֨ר דְּנָ֜ה חָזֵ֣ה הֲוֵ֗ית וַאֲר֤וּ אָֽחֳרִי֙ כִּנְמַ֔ר וְלַ֨הּ גַּפִּ֥ין אַרְבַּ֛ע דִּי־ע֖וֹף עַל־גַּבַּ֑הּ וְאַרְבְּעָ֤ה רֵאשִׁין֙ לְחֵ֣יוְתָ֔א וְשָׁלְטָ֖ן יְהִ֥יב לַֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* after this seeing I.was and lo! another like a.leopard and to it wings four (diy).of a.bird \[were\].on back its and four heads \[were\].to the beast and dominion it.was.given to it

*JPS 1917:* After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the sides of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5de_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_5de_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).