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# פְּלַג

Biblical Aramaic

**half** — used 2 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

half [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b7_5d2/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] half;—cstr. פ׳ Dn 7:25.

### Jastrow 1903

פְּלַג II: part, half half the demon Palga, disease [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b7_5d2/#m2)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** part, half. Targ. O. Gen. XV, 10 (ed. Berl. פַּלַג; ed. Vien. פִּלּוּג). Targ. Ex. XXV, 10 (Y. also פּוּלְגָּא); a. fr.—\[Targ. I Chr. XVI, 3, v. פְּלוּג.\]—B. Bath. 62ᵇ פ׳ דאית לי בארעא פ׳ if the deed reads, ‘the half share which is mine in that field’, he has sold half the field (his entire share); פ׳ בארעא דאית לי ריבעא but if it reads, ‘half of that field which is mine’, he has sold him one fourth of the field (or half his share). Ib. מצר ארעא דמינה פ׳ פ׳ (Ms. M. פְּלִיגָא) if he writes, ‘these are the borders of the field of which I sell a portion’, it means half, contrad. to פְּסִיקָא; ib. 63ᵃ. Sabb. 89ᵇ דל תרתי סרי ופ׳ וכ׳ deduct (from the years of life) twelve years and a half for prayer, eating &c. Ib. פ׳ עלי ופ׳ עלך let me bear the failings of half the remaining years, and bear thou the other half. Pes. 79ᵇ פ׳ ופ׳ equal numbers on both sides. Y. Kidd. IV, 65ᶜ top דבהתין פַּלְגּוֹן מן פלגון (not מן פלג) one half of them is afraid of the other half of them; Num. R. s. 8 פלגין מן פלגין (corr. acc.); a. v. fr.—Pl. פַּלְגַּיָּא, פַּלְגֵּי. Targ. O. Gen. XV, 10. Ib. 17 (h. text הגזרים). Ib. 11 ed. Berl. (v. פִּגְרָא); a. e.—Yoma 83ᵇ, v. פְּלוּג. רוח פלגא the demon Palga, a disease (paralysis?). Pes. 111ᵃ

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 7:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.25/#tree)

וּמִלִּ֗ין לְצַ֤ד עִלָּאָה֙ יְמַלִּ֔ל וּלְקַדִּישֵׁ֥י עֶלְיוֹנִ֖ין יְבַלֵּ֑א וְיִסְבַּ֗ר לְהַשְׁנָיָה֙ זִמְנִ֣ין וְדָ֔ת וְיִתְיַהֲב֣וּן בִּידֵ֔הּ עַד־עִדָּ֥ן וְעִדָּנִ֖ין וּפְלַ֥ג עִדָּֽן׃

*Word for word:* and words to the.side of the.Most.High he.will.speak and.(et) the.holy \[ones\] of.the.Most.High he.will.wear.out and he.will.think to change appointed.times and law and they.will.be.given in hand his until a.time and times and half of.a.time

*JPS 1917:* And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the seasons and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

[Daniel 2:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.41/#tree)

וְדִֽי־חֲזַ֜יְתָה רַגְלַיָּ֣א וְאֶצְבְּעָתָ֗א מִנְּהֵ֞ןחֲסַ֤ף דִּֽי־פֶחָר֙ וּמִנְּהֵ֣ין פַּרְזֶ֔ל מַלְכ֤וּ פְלִיגָה֙ תֶּהֱוֵ֔ה וּמִן־נִצְבְּתָ֥א דִ֥י פַרְזְלָ֖א לֶֽהֱוֵא־בַ֑הּ כָּל־קֳבֵל֙ דִּ֣י חֲזַ֔יְתָה פַּ֨רְזְלָ֔א מְעָרַ֖ב בַּחֲסַ֥ף טִינָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and that you.saw the feet and the toes some of.them \[were\].clay (diy).of a.potter and some of.them \[were\].iron a.kingdom divided it.will.be and some.of the firmness (diy).of the iron it.will.be in it as to because that you.saw the iron mixed with the.clay of the.clay

*JPS 1917:* And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but there shall be in it of the firmness of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b7_5d2.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b7_5d2/): 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).