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# נְתַן

Biblical Aramaic

**give** — used 7 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

give [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5ea_5b7_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְתַן: vb. give [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5ea_5b7_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. give (v. BH; 𝔗 rare; Old Aramaic נתן, Impf. ינתן, so Nab.; Zinj. Palm. יתן; Egyptian Aramaic Impf. אנתן, ינתן, etc., S-CPap. A 7 +, pl. sf. תנתנונה ib.J 9, Inf. למנתן S-CC 6, 9 +);— Impf. 3 ms. יִנְתִּן־ (K§ 42) Dn 2:16, sf. יִתְּנִנַּהּ 4:14 +; 2 ms. תִּנְתֵּן Ezr 7:20; 3 mpl. יִנְתְּנוּן 4:13; Inf. לְמִנְתַּ֑ן 7:20;— give, subj. God, c. sf. rei + ל pers., Dn 4:14, 22, 29. of man, give, allow, acc. time, 2:16. give, pay, acc. rei, Ezr 4:13; 7:20 (+ מִן of source), abs. v 20.

### Jastrow 1903

נְתַן

**The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. Deut. XV, 10; a. fr.—\[Targ. Is. LIII, 5 ובדנתינה some ed., read: ובדניתנהי, v. נְהֵי I.\].

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 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 (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he (3); give (1); he will give (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 7:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.20/#tree)

וּשְׁאָ֗ר חַשְׁחוּת֙ בֵּ֣ית אֱלָהָ֔ךְ דִּ֥י יִפֶּל־לָ֖ךְ לְמִנְתַּ֑ן תִּנְתֵּ֕ן מִן־בֵּ֖ית גִּנְזֵ֥י מַלְכָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and the.rest of.the.thing\[s\].needed of.the.house of your.God which it.will.fall to you to give you.will.give from the.house of.the.treasures of the.king

*JPS 1917:* And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's treasure-house.

[Daniel 2:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.16/#tree)

וְדָ֣נִיֵּ֔אל עַ֖ל וּבְעָ֣ה מִן־מַלְכָּ֑א דִּ֚י זְמָ֣ן יִנְתֵּן־לֵ֔הּ וּפִשְׁרָ֖א לְהַֽחֲוָיָ֥ה לְמַלְכָּֽא׃פ

*Word for word:* and Daniel he.went.in and he.asked from the king (diy).that time he.will.give to him and the interpretation to declare to the king

*JPS 1917:* Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, that he might declare unto the king the interpretation.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5ea_5b7_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5ea_5b7_5df/): 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).