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# שׇׁמְרָיִן

Biblical Aramaic

**Samaria** — used 2 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

Samaria [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c7_5c1_5de_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d9_5b4_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָֽׁמְרָ֑יִן: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c7_5c1_5de_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d9_5b4_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (BH שֹׁמְרוֹן, I. שָׁמַר);—Ezr 4:7, 10.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Samaria (2).

## In the verses

[Ezra 4:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.10/#tree)

וּשְׁאָ֣ר אֻמַּיָּ֗א דִּ֤י הַגְלִי֙ אָסְנַפַּר֙ רַבָּ֣א וְיַקִּירָ֔א וְהוֹתֵ֣ב הִמּ֔וֹ בְּקִרְיָ֖ה דִּ֣י שָׁמְרָ֑יִן וּשְׁאָ֥ר עֲבַֽר־נַהֲרָ֖ה וּכְעֶֽנֶת׃

*Word for word:* and the.rest of the.nations which he.took.into.exile Osnappar (the) great and (the) honorable and he.caused.to.dwell them in the.city (diy).of Samaria and the.rest of.the.region.beyond the river and now

*JPS 1917:* and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asenappar brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and the rest that are in the country beyond the River: — 'And now —

[Ezra 4:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.17/#tree)

פִּתְגָמָ֞א שְׁלַ֣ח מַלְכָּ֗א עַל־רְח֤וּם בְּעֵל־טְעֵם֙ וְשִׁמְשַׁ֣י סָֽפְרָ֔א וּשְׁאָר֙ כְּנָוָ֣תְה֔וֹן דִּ֥י יָתְבִ֖ין בְּשָֽׁמְרָ֑יִן וּשְׁאָ֧ר עֲבַֽר־נַהֲרָ֛ה שְׁלָ֖ם וּכְעֶֽת׃ס

*Word for word:* the word he.sent the king to Rehum lord of.command and Shimshai the scribe and the.rest of their.associates who \[were\].dwelling in Samaria and the.rest of.the.region.beyond the river peace and now

*JPS 1917:* Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the commander, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the River: 'Peace, and now

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c7_5c1_5de_5b0_5e8_5b8_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).