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# פְּרֵס

Biblical Aramaic

**half-mina** — 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-mina [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b5_5e1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּרֵס: halfmina [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b5_5e1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (read פְּרָס? M 78\* f.) prob. n.\[m.\] halfmina (NH פְּרָס, Old Aramaic פרס, פרש Lzb 354 SAC 99 Cooke 176, 406; v. מְנֵא and reff.);—abs. פ׳ Dn 5:28; pl. (וּ)פַרְסִין \[read פְּרָסִין? v. Ml.c.\] v 25.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.28/#tree)

פְּרֵ֑ס פְּרִיסַת֙ מַלְכוּתָ֔ךְ וִיהִיבַ֖ת לְמָדַ֥י וּפָרָֽס׃

*Word for word:* peres it.has.been.broken.in.two kingdom your and it.has.been.given to Medes and Persians

*JPS 1917:* PERES, thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.'

[Daniel 5:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.25/#tree)

וּדְנָ֥ה כְתָבָ֖א דִּ֣י רְשִׁ֑ים מְנֵ֥א מְנֵ֖א תְּקֵ֥ל וּפַרְסִֽין׃

*Word for word:* and this \[is\].the writing which it.was.inscribed mene mene teqel and pharsin

*JPS 1917:* And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b5_5e1.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_5e8_5b5_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).