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

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«אֲרַק» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **earth** — 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:אֲרַק · **BDB:** אֲרַק

### Glosses

the (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

earth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b7_5e7/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

earth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b7_5e7/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] earth (= \[אֲרַע\]; ארקא Egyptian Aramaic S-CPap. B 15 + often (sometimes also ארעא, as ib. 16), Ninev. and Bab. Aramaic Cooke 192, also Mand. Nö M § 66, Zinj., Lzb 227 Cooke 166 (cf. 183); ק = ע, as Zinj. מוקא = מוצא, רקי = רצה, Cooke 166, 185; cf.K§ 7, 2 and Anm. 1 and reff., Cooke 185 NöZMG xlvii (1893), 100; M § 66 Gunk Schöpf. 18 Lzb Eph. i. 223 SACJQ, 1903–4, 273);—emph. אַרְקָא Je 10:11a.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲרַק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5b7_5e7/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 10:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.11/)

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כִּדְנָה֙ תֵּאמְר֣וּן לְה֔וֹם אֱלָ֣הַיָּ֔א דִּֽי־שְׁמַיָּ֥א וְאַרְקָ֖א לָ֣א עֲבַ֑דוּ יֵאבַ֧דוּ מֵֽאַרְעָ֛א וּמִן־תְּח֥וֹת שְׁמַיָּ֖א אֵֽלֶּה׃ס

*Word for word:* like this you.will.say to them the gods who the heavens and the earth not they.made may.they.perish from the earth and from under the heavens these

*JPS 1917:* Thus shall ye say unto them: 'The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.'

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