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# פַּרְסָי

Biblical Aramaic

**half-mina** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

half-mina [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e1_5b8_5d9/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פַּרְסַי: adj. gent. Persian [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e1_5b8_5d9/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. gent. Persian;—emph. פרסיא Kt, פְּרְסָאָה Qr (K§ 61, 6) Dn 6:29 the Persian.

### Jastrow 1903

פַּרְסָי: d’bir Fem. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e1_5b8_5d9/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** \[Targ. II Esth. I, 8 פרסאה, read: פַּרְסָאֵי\].—Y. Ber. VI, 10ᵇ bot. חד פרסי ed. Lehm. (oth. ed. פרסוי, read פרסיי) a Persian Jew. B. Kam. 59ᵃ דקלא פ׳, v. דִּקְלָא. Shebu. 34ᵇ ההוא דינא פ׳ הוא that is Persian law (arbitrariness); B. Kam. 58ᵇ דינא דפרסאה (Ms. R. דינא פרסאה; Rashi דינא דפַרְסָאֵי); a. e.—Pl. (פַּרְסֵי) פַּרְסָאֵי. Targ. II Esth. l. c. Targ. Esth. I, 14; a. e.—Ab. Zar. 24ᵇ כמאן קרו פ׳ לספרא דביר by what authority do the Persian Jews call a book d’bir? Ib. v. דִּיסְתָּנָא II. Yoma 77ᵃ, v. אִיסְרָא II; Yalk. Ez. 347. Ib. בשני דפ׳ (Yoma l. c. במלכותא דפרס, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 3) during the years of the Persian rule; a. e.—Fem. פַּרְסָאִיתָא. Targ. II Esth. I, 16.—Pl. פַּרְסְיָאתָא, פַּרְסְיָיתָא. Ib. 12.—Ber. 44ᵇ, v. אוּפֵי. Sabb. 143ᵃ ודפרסייתא Rashi (ed. ודפַרְסְיָתָא) and the stones of Persian dates.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 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).

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.29/#tree)

וְדָנִיֵּ֣אל דְּנָ֔ה הַצְלַ֖ח בְּמַלְכ֣וּת דָּרְיָ֑וֶשׁ וּבְמַלְכ֖וּת כּ֥וֹרֶשׁ פָּרְסָאָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and Daniel this he.prospered in the.reign of.Darius and in the.reign of.Cyrus the Persian

*JPS 1917:* So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

## 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_5e1_5b8_5d9.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_5e1_5b8_5d9/): 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).