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# שׁנה

Biblical Aramaic

**sleep** — used 21 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

sleep [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c1_5e0_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁנָה: n.f. sleep [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c1_5e0_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. sleep (𝔗 Syriac);—sf. שִׁנְּתֵהּ (K§ 12 d)), var. שִׁנְתֵּהּ Dn 6:19.—i. \[שְׁנָה\] v. \[שְׁנָא\].

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: change (3); they were changed (2); \[is\] changing (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 7:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.3/#tree)

וְאַרְבַּ֤ע חֵיוָן֙ רַבְרְבָ֔ן סָלְקָ֖ן מִן־יַמָּ֑א שָׁנְיָ֖ן דָּ֥א מִן־דָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and four beasts great \[were\].coming.up from the sea \[they.were\].different this.\[one\] from this.\[one\]

*JPS 1917:* And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

[Daniel 5:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.9/#tree)

אֱ֠דַיִן מַלְכָּ֤א בֵלְשַׁאצַּר֙ שַׂגִּ֣יא מִתְבָּהַ֔ל וְזִיוֺ֖הִי שָׁנַ֣יִן עֲל֑וֹהִי וְרַבְרְבָנ֖וֹהִי מִֽשְׁתַּבְּשִֽׁין׃

*Word for word:* then the king Belshazzar exceedingly \[was\].alarmed and brightness(es) his \[were\].changing on him and nobles his \[were\].dumbfounded

*JPS 1917:* Then was king Belshazzar greatly affrighted, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5c1_5e0_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c1_5e0_5d4/): 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).