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# רְשַׁם

Biblical Aramaic

**inscribe** — used 7 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

inscribe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְשַׁם: vb. inscribe, sign Peʿîl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. inscribe, sign (𝔗 Syriac; v. BH (once, late));— Pf. 3 ms. ר׳ Dn 6:10; 2 ms. רְשַׁ֫מָתָּ v 13, רְשַׁ֑מְתָּ v 14; Impf. 2 ms. (וְ)תִרְשֻׁם v 9;—inscribe (prob. with one’s name, i.e.) sign, acc. כְּתָבָא Dn 6:9, 10, אֱסָר v 13, 14. Peʿîl Pf. 3 ms. רְשִׁים, subj. כְּתָבָא: be inscribed, written, Dn 5:24, 25. be signed 6:11.

### Jastrow 1903

רְשַׁם I: to mark; to record to make incisions to be wrinkled [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5dd/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , to mark; to record. Targ. Y. Gen. IV, 15. Targ. Ez. IX, 4. Targ. Is. X, 1 (h. text חקק). same.Targ. Jud. V, 14 (h. text מחקק׳). to make incisions. Targ. Y. Lev. XXI, 5 (h. text קרח). to be wrinkled. Targ. Ez. XXVII, 35 (h. text רעמו; prob. to be read: אִתְרְעִימוּ, v. רְעַם I.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 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 agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it was inscribed (2); did you sign (1); he signed (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.25/#tree)

וּדְנָ֥ה כְתָבָ֖א דִּ֣י רְשִׁ֑ים מְנֵ֥א מְנֵ֖א תְּקֵ֥ל וּפַרְסִֽין׃

*Word for word:* and this \[is\].the writing which it.was.inscribed mene mene teqel and pharsin

*JPS 1917:* And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN.

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

כָּל־קֳבֵ֖ל דְּנָ֑ה מַלְכָּא֙ דָּֽרְיָ֔וֶשׁ רְשַׁ֥ם כְּתָבָ֖א וֶאֱסָרָֽא׃

*Word for word:* as to because this the king Darius he.signed the writing and the prohibition

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5dd/): 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).