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# שָׂהֲדוּ

Biblical Aramaic

**testimony** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

testimony [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d4_5b2_5d3_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָֽׂהֲדוּ: n.f. testimony [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d4_5b2_5d3_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. testimony (√ שְׂהַד = 𝔗 סְהַד testify, Syriac ܣܗܶܕ, Arabic شَهِدَ testify, cf. BH \[שָׂהֵד\] (once, as loan-wd.) KAram. 86; Egyptian Aramaic pl. שהדיא witnesses, Cooke404 S-CA 15 + often);—emph. שָֽׂהֲדוּתָא Gn 31:47 (‖ BH עֵד).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, 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: Sahadutha (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 31:47](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.47/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.47/#tree)

וַיִּקְרָא־ל֣וֹ לָבָ֔ן יְגַ֖ר שָׂהֲדוּתָ֑א יְגַ֖ר שָׂהֲדוּתָ֑א וְיַֽעֲקֹ֔ב קָ֥רָא ל֖וֹ גַּלְעֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he.called (to) it Laban Jegar Sahadutha and Jacob he.called (to) it Galeed

*JPS 1917:* And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha; but Jacob called it Galeed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d4_5b2_5d3_5d5_5bc.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_5d4_5b2_5d3_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).