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# פַּס

Biblical Aramaic

**palm** — 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

palm [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פַּס²: n.m. palm [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. palm of hand;—cstr. Dn 5:5, emph. פַּסָּא v 24.

### Jastrow 1903

פַּס: strip, stripe. palm foot piece, portion; bread spade shovel watering station [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e1/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** strip, stripe.—Pl. פַּסֵּי. Targ. O. Gen. XXXVII, 3; 23 (ed. Berl. פָּסֵי, פַּסֵי). Targ. II Sam. XIII, 18 (ed. Wil. פַּסֵי). פ׳ ידא palm; פס רגלא foot, v. פִּיסְּתָא. piece, portion; bread. Bekh. 43ᵇ, v. סְקִיפַס. Lam. R. to III, 16 Ar., v. פְּטִילִיק.—Y. Ber. VI, 10ᵇ bot., v. פִּיסְּתָא. (from its shape, cmp. כַּף) spade or shovel. Lev. R. s. 24; s. 25 Ar., v. מַכּוֹשָׁא II.— פ׳ דביר (v. preced.) watering station. Targ. Y. I Deut. XXXIII, 3 ושריין כמין פ׳ דב׳ (not דבַר) and they rest as it were at a watering station; (Y. II על פום דבירוי).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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 (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.24/#tree)

בֵּאדַ֙יִן֙ מִן־קֳדָמ֔וֹהִי שְׁלִ֖יַחַפַּסָּ֣א דִֽי־יְדָ֑א וּכְתָבָ֥א דְנָ֖ה רְשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* then from before him it.was.sent.out the palm (diy).of the hand and the writing this it.was.inscribed

*JPS 1917:* then was the palm of the hand sent from before Him, and this writing was inscribed.

[Daniel 5:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.5/#tree)

בַּהּ־שַׁעֲתָ֗ה נְפַ֙קָה֙ אֶצְבְּעָן֙ דִּ֣י יַד־אֱנָ֔שׁ וְכָֽתְבָן֙ לָקֳבֵ֣ל נֶבְרַשְׁתָּ֔א עַל־גִּירָ֕א דִּֽי־כְתַ֥ל הֵיכְלָ֖א דִּ֣י מַלְכָּ֑א וּמַלְכָּ֣א חָזֵ֔ה פַּ֥ס יְדָ֖ה דִּ֥י כָתְבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* at it the moment they.went.forth fingers (diy).of a.hand of.a.human and \[they.were\].writing (to) before the candlestick on the plaster (diy).of the.wall of the.palace (diy).of the king and the king \[was\].seeing the.palm of the.hand which \[was\].writing

*JPS 1917:* In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e1/): 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).