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# תְּרֵין

Biblical Aramaic

**two** — 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

two [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b5_5d9_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּרֵין: n.m. two adj. n.m. n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b5_5d9_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m., תַּרְתֵּין (K§ 65, Anm. 1) f., two (so in Aramaic dialects generally (note Nab. f. תרתין over ag. Palm. תרתן Lzb 385); v. PhilippiZMG xxxii (1878), 21 ff.; adj. according to M-A§ 89 b);—m. only cstr. in תִּרֵי עֲשַׂר twelve, after n.m. pl. Dn 4:26; Ezr 6:17; f. after n.f. pl. שְׁנִין שִׁתִּין וְת׳ Dn 6:1 years sixty and two; = ord., שְׁנַת תַּרְתֵּין Ezr 4:24 second year.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: two (2); two plus (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.26/#tree)

לִקְצָ֥ת יַרְחִ֖ין תְּרֵֽי־עֲשַׂ֑ר עַל־הֵיכַ֧ל מַלְכוּתָ֛א דִּ֥י בָבֶ֖ל מְהַלֵּ֥ךְ הֲוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* to.\[the\] end of.months two.plus ten on the.palace of the.kingdom (diy).of Babylon walking.about he.was

*JPS 1917:* At the end of twelve months he was walking upon the royal palace of Babylon.

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

וְדָרְיָ֙וֶשׁ֙ מָֽדָיָ֔אקַבֵּ֖ל מַלְכוּתָ֑א כְּבַ֥ר שְׁנִ֖ין שִׁתִּ֥ין וְתַרְתֵּֽין׃

*Word for word:* and Darius the Mede he.received the kingdom about a.son of.years sixty and two

*JPS 1917:* And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b5_5d9_5df.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_5e8_5b5_5d9_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).