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# תַּמָּה

Biblical Aramaic

**there** — used 4 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

there [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b7_5bc_5de_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּמָּה: adv. there [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b7_5bc_5de_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adv. there (so Egyptian Aramaic (RÉS 361 B 5 \[also תנהA 4, so Cilic., Cooke 68. 5, cf. Palm. תנן ib. 121. 3, Syriac ܬܢܳܢ\] S-CA 4, J 6); 𝔗 תַּמָּן, Syriac ܬܰܡܳܢ, v. BH שָׁם);—Ezr 5:17; 6:1, 12; מִן־ת׳ thence 6:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: there (4).

## In the verses

[Ezra 6:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.1/#tree)

בֵּאדַ֛יִן דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֖א שָׂ֣ם טְעֵ֑ם וּבַקַּ֣רוּ ׀ בְּבֵ֣ית סִפְרַיָּ֗א דִּ֧י גִנְזַיָּ֛א מְהַחֲתִ֥ין תַּמָּ֖ה בְּבָבֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* then Darius the king he.made a.decree and they.searched in the.house of the.books where the treasures \[were\].deposited there in Babylon

*JPS 1917:* Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up, in Babylon.

[Ezra 6:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.6/#tree)

כְּעַ֡ן תַּ֠תְּנַי פַּחַ֨ת עֲבַֽר־נַהֲרָ֜ה שְׁתַ֤ר בּוֹזְנַי֙ שְׁתַ֤ר בּוֹזְנַי֙ וּכְנָוָ֣תְה֔וֹןאֲפַרְסְכָיֵ֔א דִּ֖י בַּעֲבַ֣ר נַהֲרָ֑ה רַחִיקִ֥ין הֲו֖וֹ מִן־תַּמָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* now O.Tattenai the.governor of.the.region.beyond the river Shethar-Bozenai Shethar-Bozenai and associates their the officials who \[are\].in the.region.beyond the river far be! from there

*JPS 1917:* 'Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your companions the Apharesachites, who are beyond the River, be ye far from thence;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5ea_5b7_5bc_5de_5b8_5bc_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b7_5bc_5de_5b8_5bc_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).