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# שָׂב

Biblical Aramaic

**be hoary** — used 5 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

be hoary [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׂיב: vb. be hoary [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be hoary (v. BH);— Pt. pl. as subst. = elders, term. techn., abs. שָׂבֵי יְהוּדָיֵא Ezr 5:5; 6:7, 8, 14; so emph. שָׂבַיָּא 5:9.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the elders (3); elders (1); the (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 6:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.7/#tree)

שְׁבֻ֕קוּ לַעֲבִידַ֖ת בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֣א דֵ֑ךְ פַּחַ֤ת יְהוּדָיֵא֙ וּלְשָׂבֵ֣י יְהוּדָיֵ֔א בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֥א דֵ֖ךְ יִבְנ֥וֹן עַל־אַתְרֵֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* leave! (et).the work of.the.house of.(the) God this the.governor of the.Jews and.(to) the elders of the.Jews the.house of.(the) God this let.them.build on place its

*JPS 1917:* let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.

[Ezra 5:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.5/#tree)

וְעֵ֣ין אֱלָהֲהֹ֗ם הֲוָת֙ עַל־שָׂבֵ֣י יְהוּדָיֵ֔א וְלָא־בַטִּ֣לוּ הִמּ֔וֹ עַד־טַעְמָ֖א לְדָרְיָ֣וֶשׁ יְהָ֑ךְ וֶאֱדַ֛יִן יְתִיב֥וּן נִשְׁתְּוָנָ֖א עַל־דְּנָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and the.eye of their.God it.was on the.elders of the.Jews and not they.made.cease them until the report to Darius it.will.go and then they.will.send.back the letter concerning this

*JPS 1917:* But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease, till the matter should come to Darius, and then answer should be returned by letter concerning it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d1/): 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).