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# שֻׁם

Biblical Aramaic

**name** — used 12 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

name [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5bb_5c1_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֻׁם: n.m. name [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5bb_5c1_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. name (v. BH שֵׁם);—cstr. שׁ׳ Ezr 5:1 +; sf. שְׁמֵהּ Dn 2:20 +; pl. cstr. שְׁמָהָת Ezr 5:4, sf. -תְהֹם v 10;—name, dei: Dn 2:20; 4:5 Ezr 5:1; 6:12; vir.: Dn 2:26; 4:5, 16; 5:12 (all Dan.), Ezr 5:4, 10(×2) also v 14, with which cf. S-CK 4, 5, 8 f., 12 f.

### Jastrow 1903

שׁוּם ²: name [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5bb_5c1_5dd/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , name. Targ. Gen. II, 11. Targ. Y. ib. V, 2. Targ. I Chr. XVI, 2; a. fr.—V. שְׁמָא.—עַל שׁ׳, מִשּׁ׳, v. preced.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (13 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: name (7); the name (3); names (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 5:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.4/#tree)

אֱדַ֥יִן כְּנֵ֖מָא אֲמַ֣רְנָא לְּהֹ֑ם מַן־אִנּוּן֙ שְׁמָהָ֣ת גֻּבְרַיָּ֔א דִּֽי־דְנָ֥ה בִנְיָנָ֖א בָּנַֽיִן׃

*Word for word:* then as.follows we.said to them what? \[are\].they the.names of the.men who this the building \[are\].building

*JPS 1917:* 'Then spoke we unto them after this manner, wrote they: What are the names of the men that build this building?'

[Ezra 5:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.10/#tree)

וְאַ֧ף שְׁמָהָתְהֹ֛ם שְׁאֵ֥לְנָא לְּהֹ֖םלְהוֹדָעוּתָ֑ךְ דִּ֛י נִכְתֻּ֥ב שֻׁם־גֻּבְרַיָּ֖א דִּ֥י בְרָאשֵׁיהֹֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and also names their we.asked to them to make known.to.you (diy).that we.will.write the.name of the.men who \[are\].at heads their

*JPS 1917:* We asked them their names also, to announce to thee, that we might write the names of the men that were at the head of them.

## In Targum Onkelos

Number 126 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 49 times there, in the forms וְשׁוּם (21); שׁוּם (21); בְּשׁוּם (4); בְשׁוּם (1); דְשׁוּם (1).

[Numbers 26:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.46/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וְשׁוּם בַּת אָשֵׁר סָרַח

וְשֵׁ֥ם בַּת־אָשֵׁ֖ר שָֽׂרַח׃

*Word for word:* and the.name of.the.daughter of.Asher \[was\].Serah

*JPS 1917:* And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.

[Genesis 36:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.32/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וּמְלַךְ בֶּאֱדוֹם בֶּלַע בַּר בְּעוֹר וְשׁוּם קַרְתֵּהּ דִּנְהָבָה

וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ בֶּאֱד֔וֹם בֶּ֖לַע בֶּן־בְּע֑וֹר וְשֵׁ֥ם עִיר֖וֹ דִּנְהָֽבָה׃

*Word for word:* and he.reigned in Edom Bela the.son of.Beor and the.name his.city his \[was\].Dinhabah

*JPS 1917:* And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5bb_5c1_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5bb_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).