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# שְׂטַר

Biblical Aramaic

**side** — 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

side [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c2_5d8_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׂטַר: n.m. side [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c2_5d8_5b7_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. side (Egyptian Aramaic S-CA 5; 𝔗 סְטַר, סִטְרָא, Syriac ܣܶܛܪܳܐ, Chr-Pal. ܣܛܪ SchulthLex. 134, cf. SchwallyIdiot. 62, 122; Arabic شَطْرٌ half);—abs. שׂ׳ Dn 7:5 (of beast in vision).

### Jastrow 1903

\*שְׂטַר: to slap [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c2_5d8_5b7_5e8/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** = סְטַר to slap. Y. Shebi. IV, 35ᵇ bot. ש׳ ותלי ביה he slaps (the fig-tree) &c., v. תָּחוּב. \[Comment. refer to שְׁטַר: he smears clay over it.\]

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 7:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.5/#tree)

וַאֲר֣וּ חֵיוָה֩ אָחֳרִ֨י תִנְיָנָ֜ה דָּמְיָ֣ה לְדֹ֗ב וְלִשְׂטַר־חַד֙ הֳקִמַ֔ת וּתְלָ֥ת עִלְעִ֛ין בְּפֻמַּ֖הּ בֵּ֣ין שִׁנַּ֑הּ וְכֵן֙ אָמְרִ֣ין לַ֔הּ ק֥וּמִֽי אֲכֻ֖לִי בְּשַׂ֥ר שַׂגִּֽיא׃

*Word for word:* and lo! a.beast another a.second \[was\].like (et).a bear and to a.side one it.was.raised and three ribs \[were\].in mouth its between tooth its and as.follows \[they.were\].saying to it arise devour! flesh much

*JPS 1917:* And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was said thus unto it: 'Arise, devour much flesh.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c2_5d8_5b7_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c2_5d8_5b7_5e8/): 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).