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# רְעוּ

Biblical Aramaic

**good pleasure** — 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

good pleasure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e2_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְעוּ: n.f. good pleasure, will [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e2_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. good pleasure, will;—cstr. רְעוּת of king Ezr 5:17, of God 7:18.

### Jastrow 1903

רְעוּ

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

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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 (20 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the will (1); to the will (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 7:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.18/#tree)

וּמָ֣ה דִי֩ עֲלָ֨ךְוְעַל־אֶחָ֜ךְיֵיטַ֗ב בִּשְׁאָ֛ר כַּסְפָּ֥א וְדַהֲבָ֖ה לְמֶעְבַּ֑ד כִּרְע֥וּת אֱלָהֲכֹ֖ם תַּעַבְדֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* and whatever that to you and to brothers your it.is.good with the.rest of the.silver and the gold to do according to.the.will of your.God you.will.do

*JPS 1917:* And whatsoever shall seem good to thee and to thy brethren to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do ye after the will of your God.

[Ezra 5:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.17/#tree)

וּכְעַ֞ן הֵ֧ן עַל־מַלְכָּ֣א טָ֗ב יִ֠תְבַּקַּר בְּבֵ֨ית גִּנְזַיָּ֜א דִּי־מַלְכָּ֣א תַמָּה֮ דִּ֣י בְּבָבֶל֒ הֵ֣ן אִיתַ֗י דִּֽי־מִן־כּ֤וֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּא֙ שִׂ֣ים טְעֵ֔ם לְמִבְנֵ֛א בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֥א דֵ֖ךְ בִּירוּשְׁלֶ֑ם וּרְע֥וּת מַלְכָּ֛א עַל־דְּנָ֖ה יִשְׁלַ֥ח עֲלֶֽינָא׃ס

*Word for word:* and now if to the king \[it.is\].good let.it.be.searched in the.house of the.treasures (diy).of the king there which \[are\].in Babylon whether there \[is\].that from Cyrus the king it.was.made a.decree to build the.house of.(the) God this in Jerusalem and the.will of the.king concerning this let.him.send to us

*JPS 1917:* Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let search be made in the king's treasure-house there, which is at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e2_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e2_5d5_5bc/): 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).