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# פַּרְשֶׁגֶן

Biblical Aramaic

**copy** — used 3 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

copy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e9_5b6_5c1_5d2_5b6_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פַּרְשֶׁ֫גֶן: n.m. copy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e9_5b6_5c1_5d2_5b6_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ezr 4:23 copy (𝔗 -שַׁגְנָא, Syriac ܦܰܪܫܰܓܢܳܐ; Aramaic loan-word in BH, where also פַּתְשֶׁגֶן id.; loan-word from Pers. (Thes1133; Add. 108), cf. Armen. patǧên, copy, GildemeisterZKM iv. 210 LagGes. Abh. 79; Armen. Stud. § 1838 MeyEnst. J. 22 HoffmZA ii. 52, OIran. \*paticayan, id., according to AndrM 79\*; not clear whether פַּר׳ is textual error for פת׳ (Hoffml.c.), or from diff. orig. (Andrl.c. paračayan? paricayan?), or from same √ in diff. stage (so appar. Scheft52, citing, for both, OBaktr. fra-sěṅhana, announcement, OIran. praśaṃsana, praśāsana, command, Arabic frasasti, command, patisêṅhana, answer, OP. \*patithaṅhana, announcement, answer));—cstr. פ׳ Ezr 4:11, 23; 5:6.

### Jastrow 1903

פַּרְשֶׁגֶן

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

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezra 4:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.11/#tree)

דְּנָה֙ פַּרְשֶׁ֣גֶן אִגַּרְתָּ֔א דִּ֚י שְׁלַ֣חוּ עֲל֔וֹהִי עַל־אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֖שְׂתְּא מַלְכָּ֑א עַבְדָ֛יךְאֱנָ֥שׁ עֲבַֽר־נַהֲרָ֖ה וּכְעֶֽנֶת׃פ

*Word for word:* this \[is\].(the).copy of the.letter which they.sent to him to Artaxerxes the king servants your the.man of.the.region.beyond the river and now

*JPS 1917:* this is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king — thy servants the men beyond the River — and now

[Ezra 5:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.6/#tree)

פַּרְשֶׁ֣גֶן אִ֠גַּרְתָּא דִּֽי־שְׁלַ֞ח תַּתְּנַ֣י ׀ פַּחַ֣ת עֲבַֽר־נַהֲרָ֗ה וּשְׁתַ֤ר בּוֹזְנַי֙ שְׁתַ֤ר בּוֹזְנַי֙ וּכְנָ֣וָתֵ֔הּ אֲפַ֨רְסְכָיֵ֔א דִּ֖י בַּעֲבַ֣ר נַהֲרָ֑ה עַל־דָּרְיָ֖וֶשׁ מַלְכָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* (the).copy of the.letter which he.sent Tattenai the.governor of.the.region.beyond the river and.Shethar-Bozenai and.Shethar-Bozenai and associates his the officials who \[were\].in the.region.beyond the river to Darius the king

*JPS 1917:* The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and his companions the Apharesachites, who were beyond the River, sent unto Darius the king;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b7_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e9_5b6_5c1_5d2_5b6_5df/): 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).