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# סְעַד

Biblical Aramaic

**support** — 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

support [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b0_5e2_5b7_5d3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סְעַד: vb. support, sustain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b0_5e2_5b7_5d3/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. support, sustain (𝔗 Zinj.; v. BH);—Pt. act. pl. מְסַעֲדִין לְהוֹן Ezr 5:2.

### Jastrow 1903

סְעַד: to assist, help Pa to dine, eat to satiate to support, help to be supported [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b0_5e2_5b7_5d3/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** to assist, help. Targ. I Sam. VII, 12 (ed. Wil. Pa.).—Targ. Gen. XXVII, 37 (h. text סמך); a. fr.—Lam. R. to II, 2 לא נִסְעוֹד וכ׳, v. סְכַף. (with or without לִיבָּא) to dine, eat. Targ. Jud. XIX, 5. Targ. Ps. XIV, 4.—Gitt. 67ᵇ מאי טעמא לא סָעֵיד מר גבן why will you not dine with us? to satiate, contrad. to זון and to גרר. Ber. 35ᵇ חמרא סָעֵיד wine satisfies; נהמא מִיסְעַד סעיד וכ׳ bread satisfies but does not exhilarate; a. e. to support, help. Targ. II Chr. XXVIII, 23. Targ. Y. Ex. XVII, 12. to be supported. Targ. Is. V, 6.

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, only a cross-reference (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 (7 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezra 5:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.2/#tree)

בֵּאדַ֡יִן קָ֠מוּ זְרֻבָּבֶ֤ל בַּר־שְׁאַלְתִּיאֵל֙ וְיֵשׁ֣וּעַ בַּר־יֽוֹצָדָ֔ק וְשָׁרִ֣יו לְמִבְנֵ֔א בֵּ֥ית אֱלָהָ֖א דִּ֣י בִירֽוּשְׁלֶ֑ם וְעִמְּה֛וֹן נְבִיַּיָּ֥א דִֽי־אֱלָהָ֖א מְסָעֲדִ֥ין לְהֽוֹן׃פ

*Word for word:* then they.arose Zerubbabel the.son of.Shealtiel and Jeshua the.son of.Jozadak and they.began to build the.house of.(the) God which \[is\].in Jerusalem and.\[were\] with them the prophets (diy).of (the) God supporting (et) them

*JPS 1917:* Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e1_5b0_5e2_5b7_5d3.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b0_5e2_5b7_5d3/): 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).