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# פַּרְזֶל

Biblical Aramaic

**iron** — used 20 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

iron [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5d6_5b6_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פַּרְזֶל: n.m. iron [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5d6_5b6_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dn 2:40 iron (𝔗 Syriac; v. BH בַּרְזֶל);—abs. Dn 2:33 (-זֶ֑ל), 4:12 +; emph. פַּרְזְלָא 2:34 +;—Dn 2:33, 34 + 11 times 2; 4:12, 20; 5:4, 23; 7:7, 19.

### Jastrow 1903

פַּרְזֶל: iron tools [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5d6_5b6_5dc/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** = h. בַּרְזֶל. Targ. Esth. V, 14. Targ. Deut. VIII, 9 (O. ed. Berl. בר׳); a. fr.—Pl. פַּרְזְלַיָּיא, פַּרְזְלַיָּה iron tools. Lev. R. s. 24 יהון מקשין בפ׳ וכ׳ (ed. Wil. מקשיין בפריזלא, corr. acc.) let them rattle with the iron tools and say &c.; הוון מקשין בפ׳ (ed. Wil. בפרזלא, corr. acc.) they rattled with &c. Y. Nidd. II, end, 50ᵇ פַּרְזְלוֹי הריפין his tools are sharp (he is an ingenious scholar, and does not need consultation with others, v. חָדַד).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 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 agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (7); iron (6); (the) (5).

## In the verses

[Daniel 2:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.33/#tree)

שָׁק֖וֹהִי דִּ֣י פַרְזֶ֑ל רַגְל֕וֹהִי מִנְּהֵין֙ דִּ֣י פַרְזֶ֔ל וּמִנְּהֵ֖ין דִּ֥י חֲסַֽף׃

*Word for word:* legs its \[were\].(diy).of iron feet its some of.them \[were\].(diy).of iron and some of.them \[were\].(diy).of clay

*JPS 1917:* its legs of iron, its feet part of iron and part of clay.

[Daniel 5:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.4/#tree)

אִשְׁתִּ֖יו חַמְרָ֑א וְ֠שַׁבַּחוּ לֵֽאלָהֵ֞י דַּהֲבָ֧א וְכַסְפָּ֛א נְחָשָׁ֥א פַרְזְלָ֖א אָעָ֥א וְאַבְנָֽא׃

*Word for word:* they.drank the wine and they.praised (et).the gods of.(the) gold and (the) silver (the) bronze (the) iron (the) wood and (the) stone

*JPS 1917:* They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5d6_5b6_5dc.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_5e8_5b0_5d6_5b6_5dc/): 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).