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# עֲשַׂר

Biblical Aramaic

**a ten** — used 6 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

a ten [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e9_5b7_5c2_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲשַׂר: ten n.f. n.m. n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e9_5b7_5c2_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. m. et f. a ten (v. BH);—m. (foll. n.f.) Dn 7:7, 20, 24; f. (before n.m.) v 24; תְּרֵי עֲשַׂר = twelve (foll. n.m.) 4:26 Ezr 6:17.

### Jastrow 1903

עֲשַׂר II: Pa. to tithe Af. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e9_5b7_5c2_5e8/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** Pa. עַשֵּׂר, עַסֵּר same, to tithe. Targ. Deut. XIV, 22. Ib. XXVI, 12 (Y. II למַעַשְׂרָא Af.).—Yeb. 93ᵃ ע׳ מפירי דביתיה עילויהו he set aside as tithes from the produces in his house on behalf of those (that were to come in). Ib. לעַשּׂוּרֵי ומיכל as regards tithing and eating; a. e.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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 (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (13 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: ten (6).

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.26/#tree)

לִקְצָ֥ת יַרְחִ֖ין תְּרֵֽי־עֲשַׂ֑ר עַל־הֵיכַ֧ל מַלְכוּתָ֛א דִּ֥י בָבֶ֖ל מְהַלֵּ֥ךְ הֲוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* to.\[the\] end of.months two.plus ten on the.palace of the.kingdom (diy).of Babylon walking.about he.was

*JPS 1917:* At the end of twelve months he was walking upon the royal palace of Babylon.

[Daniel 7:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.24/#tree)

וְקַרְנַיָּ֣א עֲשַׂ֔ר מִנַּהּ֙ מַלְכוּתָ֔ה עַשְׂרָ֥ה מַלְכִ֖ין יְקֻמ֑וּן וְאָחֳרָ֞ן יְק֣וּם אַחֲרֵיה֗וֹן וְה֤וּא יִשְׁנֵא֙ מִן־קַדְמָיֵ֔א וּתְלָתָ֥ה מַלְכִ֖ין יְהַשְׁפִּֽל׃

*Word for word:* and the horns ten from it the kingdom ten kings they.will.arise and another he.will.arise after them and he he.will.be.different from the.former \[kings\] and three kings he.will.bring.low

*JPS 1917:* And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom shall ten kings arise; and another shall arise after them; and he shall be diverse from the former, and he shall put down three kings.

## In Targum Onkelos

Number 95 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 63 times there, in the forms עֲשַׂר (62); וַעֲשַׂר (1).

[Numbers 31:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.46/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וְנַפְשָׁא דְאֱנָשָׁא שִׁתָּא עֲשַׂר אַלְפִין

וְנֶ֣פֶשׁ אָדָ֔ם שִׁשָּׁ֥ה עָשָׂ֖ר אָֽלֶף׃

*Word for word:* and person\[s\] of.humankind six- teen thousand

*JPS 1917:* and sixteen thousand persons —

[Numbers 29:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.29.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.29.15/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וְעִשְׂרוֹנָא עִשְׂרוֹנָא לְאִימְרָא חָד לְאַרְבְּעָא עֲשַׂר אִימְרִין

וְעִשָּׂרׄוֹן֙עִשָּׂר֔וֹן לַכֶּ֖בֶשׂ הָאֶחָ֑ד לְאַרְבָּעָ֥ה עָשָׂ֖ר כְּבָשִֽׂים׃

*Word for word:* and a.tenth a.tenth for the lamb (the) one for the.four- teen lambs

*JPS 1917:* and a several tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e9_5b7_5c2_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e9_5b7_5c2_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).