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# שָׁמַיִן

Biblical Aramaic

**heavens** — used 38 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

heavens [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5de_5b7_5d9_5b4_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁמַ֫יִן: n.m. pl. heavens [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5de_5b7_5d9_5b4_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. pl. heavens (BH \[שָׁמַי\], שָׁמַיִם, √ שׁמה);—always emph. שְׁמַיָּא: visible sky Je 10:11 Dn 4:8, 10, 17, 19, 20, 27, 28; עוֹף שׁ׳ 2:38; צִפְּרֵי שׁ׳ 4:9, 18; טַל שׁ׳ v 12, 20, 22, 30; 5:21; רוּחֵי שׁ׳ 7:2 winds of the sky; עֲנָנֵי שׁ׳ v 13; heavens + earth = universe Je 10:11, where God shews signs Dn 6:28. heavens as abode of God Dn 2:28; 4:31, hence, fig., as ruling v 23 (שׁ׳ sometimes = God in NH J Aram., DWorte Jesu 179; Eng. Tr. 218 f.); as abode of angels v 32 (Dr); elsewhere in phr. אֱלָהּ שׁ׳ 2:18, 19, 37, 44 Ezr 5:11, 12; 6:9, 10; 7:12, 21, 23(×2) מֶלֶךְ שׁ׳ Dn 4:34, מָרֵא שׁ׳ 5:23.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 34 of its verses cited, 0 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: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of (25); the (13).

## In the verses

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

דִּֽי־לֶהֱוֺ֧ן מְהַקְרְבִ֛ין נִיחוֹחִ֖ין לֶאֱלָ֣הּ שְׁמַיָּ֑א וּמְצַלַּ֕יִן לְחַיֵּ֥י מַלְכָּ֖א וּבְנֽוֹהִי׃

*Word for word:* that they.will.be offering soothing.offerings to the.God of the.heavens and praying for the.life(s) of the.king and sons his

*JPS 1917:* that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savour unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

[Ezra 7:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.12/#tree)

אַ֨רְתַּחְשַׁ֔סְתְּא מֶ֖לֶךְ מַלְכַיָּ֑א לְעֶזְרָ֣א כָ֠הֲנָא סָפַ֨ר דָּתָ֜א דִּֽי־אֱלָ֧הּ שְׁמַיָּ֛א גְּמִ֖יר וּכְעֶֽנֶת׃

*Word for word:* Artaxerxes the.king of.(the) kings to Ezra the priest the.scribe of the.law (diy).of the.God of the.heavens perfect and now

*JPS 1917:* 'Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, and so forth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5de_5b7_5d9_5b4_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5de_5b7_5d9_5b4_5df/): 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).