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# נְתַר

Biblical Aramaic

**strip off** — 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

strip off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5ea_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְתַר: vb. strip off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5ea_5b7_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. strip off (𝔗 נְתַר fall off; Syriac ܢܬܰܪ; Arabic نَثَرَ scatter; Assyrian našâru, diminish, shorten, NH נָשַׁר fall off);—Imv. mpl. אַתַּ֫רוּ (K§ 42 b)) Dn 4:11 (acc. of leaves).

### Jastrow 1903

נְתַר: to fall off, drop; to fall apart, decay; to become wearied, faint to drop, shed, let fall to crumble, fall in to drop, shed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5ea_5b7_5e8/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , to fall off, drop; to fall apart, decay; to become wearied, faint. Targ. Is. XL, 7. Ib. LXIV, 5; a. fr.—B. Mets. 21ᵇ דנַתְרָא that it (the fig) dropped (and was not taken off the tree). Ib. אע"ג דנַתְרִין זיתי וכ׳ even when the olives have dropped &c. Sabb. 33ᵇ וקא נַתְרָן דמעת עיניה and the tears fell from his eyes; a. fr. to drop, shed, let fall. Targ. Ruth II, 16. Targ. Y. II, Ex. IX, 32 ואַתְּרַת (not ואִתָּ׳).—Y. Kil. VII, beg. 30ᵈ דמַתְּרָן טרפיהן וכ׳ where trees shed their leaves even in midsummer. Naz. 42ᵃ אדמה דלא מַתְּרָא an earth which does not cause falling out of the hair; a. e.—Y. Yeb. XVI, 15ᵈ אתרין, v. infra. (neut. verb) (neut. verb) to crumble, fall in. B. Kam. 9ᵇ בור דרכה לנַתּוּרֵי a pit is liable to fall in (and mere covering it up is not a sufficient precaution). to drop, shed. Targ. Is. I, 30; a. e.—Y. Yeb. XVI, 15ᵈ (if one says of a person) נַתְּרִי פלוני, ‘I have dropped that man’, you must not allow his wife to marry again (it does not necessarily mean that he saw him dead), for I may say, he means \[read:\] אַתְּרִי לפלוני מאכל I dropped that man something to eat.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.11/#tree)

קָרֵ֨א בְחַ֜יִל וְכֵ֣ן אָמַ֗ר גֹּ֤דּוּ אִֽילָנָא֙ וְקַצִּ֣צוּ עַנְפ֔וֹהִי אַתַּ֥רוּ עָפְיֵ֖הּ וּבַדַּ֣רוּ אִנְבֵּ֑הּ תְּנֻ֤ד חֵֽיוְתָא֙ מִן־תַּחְתּ֔וֹהִי וְצִפְּרַיָּ֖א מִן־עַנְפֽוֹהִי׃

*Word for word:* \[he.was\].proclaiming with power and as.follows \[he.was\].saying cut.down! the tree and cut.off! branches its strip.off! foliage its and scatter! fruit its let.it.flee the animal\[s\] from under it and the birds from branches its

*JPS 1917:* He cried aloud, and said thus: Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5ea_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_5ea_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).