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

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«אֶשָּׁא» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **fire** — 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:אֶשָּׁא · **BDB:** אֶשָּׁא

### Glosses

of.fire (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fire [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b8_5bc_5c1_5d0/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

fire [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b8_5bc_5c1_5d0/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] fire (BH אֵשׁ; K § 55, 5. 2 b thinks emph. from onomatop. √ אשׁשׁ; D 161 Buhl √ אשׁא, cf.𝔗 אִישָּׁא, אִישָּׁתָא, Syriac ܐܶܫܳܬܳܐ );—Dn 7:11.

### Jastrow 1903

אֶשָּׁא: fire torches fever tertian; inflammatory fever quotidian [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b8_5bc_5c1_5d0/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** fire. Targ. Gen. XV, 17; a. fr.—B. Mets. 85ᵇ בעורין דאשא torches. Men. 53ᵃ אישא וכ׳ may fire consume him. fever. Targ. Y. Gen. XXI, 15.—Yoma 29ᵃ אישתא וכ׳ the fever in winter time. Sabb. 66ᵇ sq. א׳ תלתא tertian; א׳ צמירתא inflammatory fever, א׳ בת יומא quotidian. Yeb. 71ᵇ דזנתיה אי׳ fever fed its vital energies. Snh. 108ᵇ

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֶשָּׁא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b8_5bc_5c1_5d0/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 7:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.11/)

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חָזֵ֣ה הֲוֵ֔ית בֵּאדַ֗יִן מִן־קָל֙ מִלַּיָּ֣א רַבְרְבָתָ֔א דִּ֥י קַרְנָ֖א מְמַלֱּלָ֑ה חָזֵ֣ה הֲוֵ֡ית עַד֩ דִּ֨י קְטִילַ֤ת חֵֽיוְתָא֙ וְהוּבַ֣ד גִּשְׁמַ֔הּ וִיהִיבַ֖ת לִיקֵדַ֥ת אֶשָּֽׁא׃

*Word for word:* seeing I.was then from the.sound of the.words (the) great which the horn \[was\].speaking seeing I.was until that it.was.killed the beast and it.was.destroyed body its and it.was.given to.\[the\] burning of.fire

*JPS 1917:* I beheld at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke, I beheld even till the beast was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.

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