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# דָּרְיָוֶשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1867

**Darius** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Darius [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1867/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּֽרְיָ֫וֶשׁ: n.pr.m. Darius [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1867/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Darius (Old Pers. Dârayavaʾush cf. SpiegAPK 81)— Darius Hystaspis, 522–485 Ezr 4:5 Hg 1:1, 15; 2:10 Zc 1:1, 7; 7:1. Darius Codomannus, 336–332 Ne 12:22. ‘Darius the Mede,’ Dn 9:1; 11:1, cf. Bev Dan. p. 19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Darius (8); of Darius (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 9:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.9.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.9.1/#tree)

בִּשְׁנַ֣ת אַחַ֗ת לְדָרְיָ֛וֶשׁ בֶּן־אֲחַשְׁוֵר֖וֹשׁ מִזֶּ֣רַע מָדָ֑י אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָמְלַ֔ךְ עַ֖ל מַלְכ֥וּת כַּשְׂדִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* in year one of Darius the.son of.Ahasuerus one of.the.descendant\[s\] of.Media who he.had.been.made.king over the.kingdom of.\[the\].Chaldeans

*JPS 1917:* In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;

[Daniel 11:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.1/#tree)

וַאֲנִי֙ בִּשְׁנַ֣ת אַחַ֔ת לְדָרְיָ֖וֶשׁ הַמָּדִ֑י עָמְדִ֛י לְמַחֲזִ֥יק וּלְמָע֖וֹז לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and I in year one of Darius the Mede standing my \[was\].to \[one.who\].strengthens and to a.protection for him

*JPS 1917:* And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to be a supporter and a stronghold unto him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1867.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1867/): 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).