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title: אֲרִיךְ — fitting · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: אֲרִיךְ (lemma:אֲרִיךְ), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 1 times: fitting. BDB 1906: adj.vb. fitting, proper. With 1 verse in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲרִיךְ

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«אֲרִיךְ» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **fitting** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:אֲרִיךְ · **BDB:** אַרִיךְ

### Glosses

\[is\].proper (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fitting [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b4_5d9_5da_5b0/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.vb. fitting, proper [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b4_5d9_5da_5b0/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.vb. fitting, proper (אַ׳ Baer K§ 16, 5 M-A§ 82, Anm. 2; van d. H. Gi Str אֲרִיךְ, cf.DWB 39; 𝔗 id.; orig. Pt. pass. K§ 57 b) r));—Ezr 4:14.

### Jastrow 1903

אֲרִיךְ II: long to arrange right, befitting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b4_5d9_5da_5b0/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** (preced.) long. Targ. Ezek. XVII, 3.—Targ. Prov. XIV, 17 דא׳ תרעיתיה whose intrigue is long prepared (h. איש מזמות). V. אֲרִיכָא (part. pass. of אֲרַךְ to arrange) right, befitting. Ezra IV, 14.—Succ. 4ᵇ א׳ או לא א׳ is it right or not? B. Mets. 75ᵃ וא׳ and it is proper to do so. Midr. Till. to Ps. I, 2 וא׳ כדין is such a thing right?

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (11 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲרִיךְ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b4_5d9_5da_5b0/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 4:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.14/)

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כְּעַ֗ן כָּל־קֳבֵל֙ דִּֽי־מְלַ֤ח הֵֽיכְלָא֙ מְלַ֔חְנָא וְעַרְוַ֣ת מַלְכָּ֔א לָ֥א אֲ‍ֽרִֽיךְ לַ֖נָא לְמֶֽחֱזֵ֑א עַ֨ל־דְּנָ֔ה שְׁלַ֖חְנָא וְהוֹדַ֥עְנָא לְמַלְכָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* now as to because that the.salt of the.palace we.eat.salt and the.dishonor of the.king not \[is\].proper for us to see concerning this we.have.sent and we.have.made.known to the king

*JPS 1917:* Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and announced to the king,

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