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# קַדִּישׁ

Biblical Aramaic

**holy** — used 13 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

holy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5d3_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e9_5c1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קַדִּישׁ: adj. holy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5d3_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e9_5c1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. holy;—abs. ק׳ Dn 4:10, 20; pl. שִׁין 4:5 +, cstr. -שֵׁי 7:18 +;—gods Dn 4:5, 6, 15; 5:11; as subst., of angels 4:10, 14, 20; of Isr. (as holy ones, saints) 7:21, 22, קַדִּישֵׁי עֶלְיוֹנִין saints of the Most High v 18, 22, 25, 27.

### Jastrow 1903

קַדִּישׁ: holy, sacred, pure Ḳaddish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5d3_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e9_5c1/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** = h. קָדוֹשׁ, holy, sacred, pure. Targ. Num. XVI, 5 (some ed. O. קַדֵּישׁ, קַדֵּשׁ). Targ. Is. I, 4. Ib. LVII, 15; a. fr.—\[Targ. Y. Num. XI, 7, read: קַרִישׁ.\]—Midr. Till. to Ps. CXVIII, 8, v. עִיר I. Meg. 27ᵇ מעיר … מעיקרא ק׳ השתא נמי ק׳ if you sell a sacred object to be taken from a large town to a small place, it was sacred (used for public services) before, and is so now. Ber. 9ᵇ העיד … משום קהלא ק׳ וכ׳ R. J. … declared in behalf of the holy congregation of Jerusalem; a. fr.—Snh. 109ᵇ v. infra.—Pl. קַדִּישִׁין, קַדִּישַׁיָּא, קַדִּישֵׁי; קַדִּישָּׁתָא. Targ. Num. XVI, 3; a. fr.—Snh. l. c. ירענא דכולהו כנישתא קדישי נינהו Ms. M. (ed. קדישתא, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) I know that the whole congregation are holy. Pes. 113ᵇ בחייהן דרבנן ק׳ וכ׳ Ms. M. by the life of the holy (revered) Rabbis in the land of Israel (v. קְדוּשָּׁה end); a. e.—\[ קַדִּישׁ, קַדִּישָׁא Ḳaddish, the doxology beginning with יתגדל ויתקדש וכ׳ magnified and sanctified be his great name. Treat. Sof’rim X, 7; a. e.\]

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 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 (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (15 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: holy (4); \[the\] holy \[ones\] (2); a holy \[one\] (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 7:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.21/#tree)

חָזֵ֣ה הֲוֵ֔ית וְקַרְנָ֣א דִכֵּ֔ן עָבְדָ֥ה קְרָ֖ב עִם־קַדִּישִׁ֑ין וְיָכְלָ֖ה לְהֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* seeing I.was and the horn this \[was\].making war with \[the\].holy.\[ones\] and \[it.was\].prevailing to them

*JPS 1917:* I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

[Daniel 4:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.10/#tree)

חָזֵ֥ה הֲוֵ֛ית בְּחֶזְוֵ֥י רֵאשִׁ֖י עַֽל־מִשְׁכְּבִ֑י וַאֲלוּ֙ עִ֣יר וְקַדִּ֔ישׁ מִן־שְׁמַיָּ֖א נָחִֽת׃

*Word for word:* seeing I.was in the.visions of my.head on bed my and lo! a.watcher and a.holy.\[one\] from the heavens \[was\].coming.down

*JPS 1917:* I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven.

## In Targum Onkelos

Number 113 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 53 times there, in the forms קַדִישׁ (46); וְקַדִישׁ (3); דְקַדִישׁ (1); וְקַדִּישׁ (1); קַדִּישׁ (1).

[Numbers 6:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.6.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.6.8/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

כֹּל יוֹמֵי נִזְרֵהּ קַדִישׁ הוּא קֳדָם יְיָ

כֹּ֖ל יְמֵ֣י נִזְר֑וֹ קָדֹ֥שׁ ה֖וּא לַֽיהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* all the.days his.consecration his \[is\].holy he to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* All the days of his Naziriteship he is holy unto the LORD.

[Exodus 29:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.29.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.29.31/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וְיָת דְכַר קֻרְבָּנַיָא תִּסָב וּתְבַשֵׁל יָת בִּסְרֵהּ בַּאֲתַר קַדִישׁ:

וְאֵ֛ת אֵ֥יל הַמִּלֻּאִ֖ים תִּקָּ֑ח וּבִשַּׁלְתָּ֥ אֶת־בְּשָׂר֖וֹ בְּמָקֹ֥ם קָדֹֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.ram of.(the) installation.offering(s) you.will.take and you.will.boil (et) meat its in a.place holy

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt take the ram of consecration, and seethe its flesh in a holy place.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5d3_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e9_5c1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5d3_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e9_5c1/): 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).