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# רַעְיוֹן

Biblical Aramaic

**thought** — used 6 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

thought [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b7_5e2_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רַעְיוֹן: thought [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b7_5e2_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. m. Dn 4:16 thought;—pl. cstr. רַעְיוֹנֵי לִבְבָךְ Dn 2:30; sf. -נַי 7:28; -ניך Kt, -נָךְ Qr (K§ 53 Anm. b)) 2:29; 5:10, רַעְיֹנֹ֫הִי 4:16; 5:6.

### Jastrow 1903

רַעְיוֹן: desire, ambition, greed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b7_5e2_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5df/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** v. רְעֵי II; cmp. Hos. XII, desire, ambition, greed. Y. Sabb. XIV, 14ᶜ bot. (ref. to Deut. VII, 15) כל חלי זה ר׳ ‘every disease’, this means ambition; (B. Mets. 107ᵇ; Lev. R. s. 16 זו עין). Y. Sabb. l. c. (ref. to Deut. XXVIII, 48) ונתן … זה ר׳ ‘he will put an iron yoke on thy neck’, that is greed.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 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, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: thoughts (3); thought\[s\] (2); the thoughts (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 2:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.29/#tree)

אַ֣נְתְּהמַלְכָּ֗א רַעְיוֹנָךְ֙ עַל־מִשְׁכְּבָ֣ךְ סְלִ֔קוּ מָ֛ה דִּ֥י לֶהֱוֵ֖א אַחֲרֵ֣י דְנָ֑ה וְגָלֵ֧א רָזַיָּ֛א הוֹדְעָ֖ךְ מָה־דִ֥י לֶהֱוֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* you O king thought\[s\] your on bed your they.came.up what that it.will.be after this and \[one.who\].reveals (the) secrets he has.made.known.to.you what that it.will.be

*JPS 1917:* as for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter; and He that revealeth secrets hath made known to thee what shall come to pass.

[Daniel 5:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.6/#tree)

אֱדַ֤יִן מַלְכָּא֙ זִיוֺ֣הִי שְׁנ֔וֹהִי וְרַעיֹנֹ֖הִייְבַהֲלוּנֵּ֑הּ וְקִטְרֵ֤י חַרְצֵהּ֙ מִשְׁתָּרַ֔יִן וְאַ֨רְכֻבָּתֵ֔הּ דָּ֥א לְדָ֖א נָֽקְשָֽׁן׃

*Word for word:* then the king brightness(es) his they changed.him and thoughts his they alarmed.him and the.joints of his.loin\[s\] \[were\].loosened and knees his this.\[one\] to this.\[one\] \[were\].knocking

*JPS 1917:* Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts affrighted him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b7_5e2_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5df/): 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).