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# עֲנָה

Biblical Aramaic

**answer** — used 30 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

answer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e0_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲנָה: vb. answer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e0_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. answer (v. BH I. עָנָה);— Pf. 3 fs. עֲנַת Dn 5:10; 3 mpl. עֲנוֹ 2:7 +; Pt. act. (עֲנָה NöGGA, 1884, 1021) עָנֵה 2:5 +, pl. עָנַיִן (K§ 47 Beisp. ε)) 3:24;—always + אמר Pt., answered and said (ל \[or קֳדָם\] pers. usually foll. אמר; foll. ע׳ 2:10, 27, 47):— answer, make reply, to something said: Dn 2:5, 7, 8, 10, 27; 3:16, 24, 25; 4:16 b; 5:17; 6:13, 14. respond to occasion, speak in view of a situation: 2:15, 20, 26, 47; 3:9, 14, 19, 24, 26, 28; 4:16 a, 27; 5:7, 10, 13; 6:17, 21; 7:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 28 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] replying (18); \[he was\] replying (5); they replied (5).

## In the verses

[Daniel 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.9/#tree)

עֲנוֹ֙ וְאָ֣מְרִ֔ין לִנְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֖ר מַלְכָּ֑א מַלְכָּ֖א לְעָלְמִ֥ין חֱיִֽי׃

*Word for word:* they.replied and.\[were\] saying to Nebuchadnezzar the king O king forever live!

*JPS 1917:* They spoke and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king: 'O king, live for ever!

[Daniel 2:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.7/#tree)

עֲנ֥וֹ תִנְיָנ֖וּת וְאָמְרִ֑ין מַלְכָּ֕א חֶלְמָ֛א יֵאמַ֥ר לְעַבְד֖וֹהִי וּפִשְׁרָ֥ה נְהַחֲוֵֽה׃

*Word for word:* they.replied a.second.\[time\] and \[they.were\].saying O king the dream let.him.tell to servants his and the interpretation we.will.declare

*JPS 1917:* They answered the second time and said: 'Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will declare the interpretation.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e0_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e0_5b8_5d4/): 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).