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# קְרָא

Biblical Aramaic

**call** — used 11 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

call [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קְרָא: vb. call, read out, aloud Peʿîl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. call, read out, aloud (v. BH I. קרא);— Impf. 3 ms. יִקְרֵה Dn 5:7, 1 s. אֶקְרֵא v 17; 3 mpl. יִקְרוֹן v 15; Inf. לְמִקְרֵא v 8, 16; Pt. act. קָרֵא 3:4 +;— call, proclaim, בְּהַיִל: Dn 3:4; 4:11; 5:7. read out, aloud, acc. כְּתָבָא 5:7, 8, 15, 16, v 17 (ל pers.). Peʿîl (WCG 225) Pf. 3 ms. קֱרִי Ezr 4:18, 23 it was read, קֳדָם pers. be summoned, Impf. 3 ms. יִתְקְרֵי Dn 5:12.

### Jastrow 1903

קְרָא I

**The whole Jastrow entry:** v. קְרֵי

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 2 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, 0 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 (34 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it was read aloud (2); read aloud (2); I will read aloud (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 4:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.18/#tree)

נִשְׁתְּוָנָ֕א דִּ֥י שְׁלַחְתּ֖וּן עֲלֶ֑ינָא מְפָרַ֥שׁ קֱרִ֖י קָדָמָֽי׃

*Word for word:* the letter which you.sent to us \[was\].made.distinct it.was.read.aloud before me

*JPS 1917:* the letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.

[Daniel 3:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.4/#tree)

וְכָרוֹזָ֖א קָרֵ֣א בְחָ֑יִל לְכ֤וֹן אָֽמְרִין֙ עַֽמְמַיָּ֔א אֻמַּיָּ֖א וְלִשָּׁנַיָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and the herald \[was\].proclaiming with power to you \[they.are\].saying O peoples (the) nations and (the) languages

*JPS 1917:* And the herald cried aloud: 'To you it is commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages,

## In Targum Onkelos

Number 58 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 102 times there, in the forms וּקְרָא (81); קְרָא (20); וקְרָא (1).

[Genesis 22:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.22.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.22.15/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וּקְרָא מַלְאָכָא דַּיְיָ לְאַבְרָהָם תִּנְיָנוּת מִן שְׁמַיָּא

וַיִּקְרָ֛א מַלְאַ֥ךְ יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־אַבְרָהָ֑ם שֵׁנִ֖ית מִן־הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and he.called the.angel of.Yahweh to Abraham a.second.\[time\] from the heavens

*JPS 1917:* And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham a second time out of heaven,

[Genesis 38:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.3/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וְעַדִּיאַת וִילִידַת בָּר וּקְרָא יָת שְׁמֵהּ עֵר

וַתַּ֖הַר וַתֵּ֣לֶד בֵּ֑ן וַיִּקְרָ֥א אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ עֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* and she.conceived and she.bore a.son and he.called (et) name his Er

*JPS 1917:* And she conceived, and bore a son; and he called his name Er.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e7_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d0/): 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).