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# צלה

Biblical Aramaic

**pray** — 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

pray [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5dc_5d4/#m1)

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: praying (2).

## In the verses

[Ezra 6:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.10/#tree)

דִּֽי־לֶהֱוֺ֧ן מְהַקְרְבִ֛ין נִיחוֹחִ֖ין לֶאֱלָ֣הּ שְׁמַיָּ֑א וּמְצַלַּ֕יִן לְחַיֵּ֥י מַלְכָּ֖א וּבְנֽוֹהִי׃

*Word for word:* that they.will.be offering soothing.offerings to the.God of the.heavens and praying for the.life(s) of the.king and sons his

*JPS 1917:* that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savour unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

[Daniel 6:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.11/#tree)

וְ֠דָנִיֵּאל כְּדִ֨י יְדַ֜ע דִּֽי־רְשִׁ֤ים כְּתָבָא֙ עַ֣ל לְבַיְתֵ֔הּ וְכַוִּ֨ין פְּתִיחָ֥ן לֵהּ֙ בְּעִלִּיתֵ֔הּ נֶ֖גֶד יְרוּשְׁלֶ֑ם וְזִמְנִין֩ תְּלָתָ֨ה בְיוֹמָ֜א ה֣וּא ׀ בָּרֵ֣ךְ עַל־בִּרְכ֗וֹהִי וּמְצַלֵּ֤א וּמוֹדֵא֙ קֳדָ֣ם אֱלָהֵ֔הּ כָּל־קֳבֵל֙ דִּֽי־הֲוָ֣א עָבֵ֔ד מִן־קַדְמַ֖ת דְּנָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and Daniel as that he.knew (diy).that it.was.signed the writing he.went.in to house his and windows \[were\].opened to it in his.upper room facing Jerusalem and times three in the day he \[was\].kneeling on knees his and.\[was\] praying and.\[was\] praising before God his as to because that he.was doing from the.former.time of.this

*JPS 1917:* And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house — now his windows were open in his upper chamber toward Jerusalem — and he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e6_5dc_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5dc_5d4/): 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).