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# פְּשַׁר

Biblical Aramaic

**interpretation** — used 33 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

interpretation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּשַׁר²: n.m. interpretation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dn 2:45 interpretation (of dream) (cf. BH as loan-word);—cstr. פ׳ Dn 4:3; 5:15, 26; 7:16; emph. פִּשְׁרָא 2:4 + 7 times Dn, + 4:15, 16 Kt (Qr. הּ—ֵ); ה—ָ 2:7; 5:12; sf. הּ—ֵ 2:5, 6(×2) + 11 times Dn, + Qr 4:15, 16 (Kt א—ָ); pl. פִּשְׁרִין 5:16.

### Jastrow 1903

פְּשַׁר II: interpretation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e8/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (preced.) interpretation. Targ. Y. Gen. XL, 8 פ׳ לית ליה (O. פַּשַּׁר, v. preced.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 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 (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: interpretation (13); the (9); its (3).

## In the verses

[Daniel 2:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.36/#tree)

דְּנָ֣ה חֶלְמָ֔א וּפִשְׁרֵ֖הּ נֵאמַ֥ר קֳדָם־מַלְכָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* this \[was\].the dream and interpretation its we.will.tell before the king

*JPS 1917:* This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

[Daniel 5:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.26/#tree)

דְּנָ֖ה פְּשַֽׁר־מִלְּתָ֑א מְנֵ֕א מְנָֽה־אֱלָהָ֥א מַלְכוּתָ֖ךְ וְהַשְׁלְמַֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* this \[is\].the.interpretation of the.matter mene he.has.numbered (the) God kingdom your and he has.finished.it

*JPS 1917:* This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e8.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_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e8/): 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).