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# תְּלַג

Biblical Aramaic

**snow** — 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

snow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b7_5d2/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּלַג: snow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b7_5d2/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] snow (𝔗 Syriac; BH שֶׁלֶג);—abs.ת׳ Dn 7:9 (sim.).

### Jastrow 1903

תְּלַג: snow; cold, chill [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b7_5d2/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** = h. שֶׁלֶג, snow; cold, chill. Targ. Ps. LI, 9. Ib. LXVIII, 15; a. fr.—Taan. 3ᵇ מעלי ת׳ וכ׳ snow on the mountains is as good as five rains on the ground. Snh. 18ᵇ אם … בת׳ ימות if in the morning the ox nearly dies from cold. Gitt. 67ᵇ לת׳ as a remedy for chills. Ib. הוו מגנו ליה את׳ they made him lie on the snow; a. e.

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 agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 7:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.9/#tree)

חָזֵ֣ה הֲוֵ֗ית עַ֣ד דִּ֤י כָרְסָוָן֙ רְמִ֔יו וְעַתִּ֥יק יוֹמִ֖ין יְתִ֑ב לְבוּשֵׁ֣הּ ׀ כִּתְלַ֣ג חִוָּ֗ר וּשְׂעַ֤ר רֵאשֵׁהּ֙ כַּעֲמַ֣ר נְקֵ֔א כָּרְסְיֵהּ֙ שְׁבִיבִ֣ין דִּי־נ֔וּר גַּלְגִּלּ֖וֹהִי נ֥וּר דָּלִֽק׃

*Word for word:* seeing I.was until that thrones they.were.placed and.\[one\] ancient of.days he.sat clothing his like snow \[was\].white and the.hair of his.head like wool \[was\].pure throne his \[was\].flames (diy).of fire wheels its \[were\].fire burning

*JPS 1917:* I beheld till thrones were placed, and one that was ancient of days did sit: his raiment was as white snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, and the wheels thereof burning fire.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b7_5d2.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b7_5d2/): 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).