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# עֲרָד

Biblical Aramaic

**wild ass** — 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

wild ass [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e8_5b8_5d3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲרָד: n.m. wild ass [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e8_5b8_5d3/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. wild ass (𝔗 Syriac; √ ערד, perhaps = Arabic غرد give a cry NöSBWAk. cxlii. v. II. 1900, v. BH עָרוֹד as loan-word (KAramaismen 72, but dub. NöZMG lvii (1903), 413));—pl.emph. עֲרָדַיָּא Dn 5:21.

### Jastrow 1903

עָרוֹד: wild ass Fem [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e8_5b8_5d3/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , wild ass. Targ. Y. Gen. XVI, 12. Targ. Hos. VIII, 9; a. e.—Pl. עֲרוֹדַיָּא, עֲרָדִין, עְרוֹדֵי. Targ. Ps. CIV, 11.—Ab. Zar. 16ᵇ טחני ריחיים בע׳ they employed wild asses to turn the millstones.—Fem. עָרוֹדָא. Targ. Jer. II, 24 (ed. Lag. עֲרָדָא).

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, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.21/#tree)

וּמִן־בְּנֵי֩ אֲנָשָׁ֨א טְרִ֜יד וְלִבְבֵ֣הּ ׀ עִם־חֵיוְתָ֣א שַׁוִּ֗יְווְעִם־עֲרָֽדַיָּא֙ מְדוֹרֵ֔הּ עִשְׂבָּ֤א כְתוֹרִין֙ יְטַ֣עֲמוּנֵּ֔הּ וּמִטַּ֥ל שְׁמַיָּ֖א גִּשְׁמֵ֣הּ יִצְטַבַּ֑ע עַ֣ד דִּֽי־יְדַ֗ע דִּֽי־שַׁלִּ֞יט אֱלָהָ֤א עִלָּאָה֙ בְּמַלְכ֣וּת אֲנָשָׁ֔א וּלְמַן־דִּ֥י יִצְבֵּ֖ה יְהָקֵ֥ים עֲלַֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and away.from the.sons of.(the) humankind he.was.chased and heart his with the animal\[s\] they.made and.\[was\] with the.wild donkeys his.dwelling place (the) grass like oxen they fed.him and from the.dew of the.heavens body his it.became.wet until that he.knew (diy).that \[was\].having.mastery (the) God (the).Most High over the.kingdom of.(the) humankind and to whomever whom he.will.be.pleased he.will.appoint over it

*JPS 1917:* and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; until he knew that God Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and that He setteth up over it whomsoever He will.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e8_5b8_5d3.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e8_5b8_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).