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# תְּלָת

Biblical Aramaic

**three** — 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

three [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b8_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּלָת: n.m. \>three n.f. n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b8_5ea/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m., תְּלָתָה f., \>three (𝔗 Syriac; BH שָׁלֹשׁ, שִׁלשָׁה);—m. תְּלָת bef. n.f. pl. Dn 7:5; n.f. om. v 8, 20; f. תְּלָתָה bef. n.m. pl. 7:24; after, 3:24; 6:3, 11, 14, so א—ָ Ezr 6:4; יוֹם תְּלָתָה 6:15 third day; sf. תְּלָתֵּהוֹן (K§ 65. Aum. 1) Dn 3:23 the three of them.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: three (10); third (1); three \[horns\] (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 6:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.4/#tree)

נִדְבָּכִ֞ין דִּי־אֶ֤בֶן גְּלָל֙ תְּלָתָ֔א וְנִדְבָּ֖ךְ דִּי־אָ֣ע חֲדַ֑ת וְנִ֨פְקְתָ֔א מִן־בֵּ֥ית מַלְכָּ֖א תִּתְיְהִֽב׃

*Word for word:* rows (diy).of stone of.rolling three and a.row (diy).of timber new and the expense from the.house of the.king let.it.be.given

*JPS 1917:* with three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber, and let the expenses be given out of the king's house;

[Ezra 6:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.15/#tree)

וְשֵׁיצִיא֙ בַּיְתָ֣ה דְנָ֔ה עַ֛ד י֥וֹם תְּלָתָ֖ה לִירַ֣ח אֲדָ֑ר דִּי־הִ֣יא שְׁנַת־שֵׁ֔ת לְמַלְכ֖וּת דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מַלְכָּֽא׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.was.finished the house this until day three of the.month of.Adar which it \[was\].year six of the.reign of.Darius the king

*JPS 1917:* And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b8_5ea.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_5b8_5ea/): 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).