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# פֻּם

Biblical Aramaic

**mouth** — 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

mouth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5bb_5bc_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֻּם: n.m. mouth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5bb_5bc_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dn 7:8 mouth (cf. BH פֶּה; on form v. K§ 61, 2) M§ 76 f.);—פ׳ abs. Dn 7:8, 20, cstr. 4:28 +, sf. פֻּמֵּהּ (on form v. Kl.c. NöZur Gram. d. Class. Ar. 15 (1896) (expansion of biliteral √), BaZMG xli (1887), 633 f.) 7:5;—mouth of king Dn 4:28, lions 6:23, beast (in vision) 7:5, horn (ib.) v 8, 20; mouth of pit 6:18.

### Jastrow 1903

פֻּם

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , v. פּוּם

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 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, only a cross-reference (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the mouth (3); a mouth (2); mouth (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.28/#tree)

ע֗וֹד מִלְּתָא֙ בְּפֻ֣ם מַלְכָּ֔א קָ֖ל מִן־שְׁמַיָּ֣א נְפַ֑ל לָ֤ךְ אָֽמְרִין֙ נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֣ר מַלְכָּ֔א מַלְכוּתָ֖ה עֲדָ֥ת מִנָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* still the word \[was\].in the.mouth of the.king a.voice from the heavens it.fell to you \[they.are\].saying O.Nebuchadnezzar the king the kingdom it.has.passed.away from you

*JPS 1917:* While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven: 'O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: the kingdom is departed from thee.

[Daniel 6:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.18/#tree)

וְהֵיתָ֙יִת֙ אֶ֣בֶן חֲדָ֔ה וְשֻׂמַ֖ת עַל־פֻּ֣ם גֻּבָּ֑א וְחַתְמַ֨הּ מַלְכָּ֜א בְּעִזְקְתֵ֗הּ וּבְעִזְקָת֙ רַבְרְבָנ֔וֹהִי דִּ֛י לָא־תִשְׁנֵ֥א צְב֖וּ בְּדָנִיֵּֽאל׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.brought a.stone one and it.was.set over the.mouth of the.den and he sealed.it the king with signet-ring his and with the.signet-rings of his.nobles that not it.will.change anything with Daniel

*JPS 1917:* And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e4_5bb_5bc_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5bb_5bc_5dd/): 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).