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title: א — Aleph · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: א (lemma:א), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 799 times: Aleph. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# א

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«א» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **Aleph** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 799 times · **Key:** lemma:א

### Glosses

king (137); God (29); the.heavens (25)

### Jastrow 1903

א: Aleph [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0/#m1)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** Aleph, the first letter of the alphabet, interchanging with other gutturals, e.g. אבב, הבב, חבב, עבב; אליתא, עליתא \&c.

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Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: none; Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «א» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 4:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.25/)

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כֹּ֣לָּא מְּטָ֔א עַל־נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֖ר מַלְכָּֽא׃פ

*Word for word:* (the) everything it.came on Nebuchadnezzar the king

*JPS 1917:* All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.

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[Daniel 5:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.27/)

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תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה בְמֹֽאזַנְיָ֖א וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ חַסִּֽיר׃

*Word for word:* teqel you.have.been.weighed in the scales and you.have.been.found lacking

*JPS 1917:* TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

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