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title: בְּ — prep. in, with, through · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: בְּ (lemma:בְּ), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 226 times: prep. in, with, through. BDB 1906: prep. in, with, through. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בְּ

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«בְּ» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **prep. in, with, through** — 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:** 226 times · **Key:** lemma:בְּ · **BDB:** בְּ

### Glosses

in (87);  (29); with (24)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

prep. in, with, through [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** prep. in, with, through, etc. (BH בְּ);—sf. בִּי, בָּךְ Dn 4:6 +, 3 ms. בֵּהּ 3:7 +, f. בַּהּ 2:41; 3:6 +, 3 pl. בְּהוֹן 3:25 +;— in, of place, 2:38; 3:1; 4:12 בֶּאֱסוּר +; at Ezr 5:10, of time Dn 2:28; 3:5 (at), 5:2 +; 4:12 Ezr 4:16 חֲלָק בְּ׳ a share in (BH I. 2). into, Dn 2:38 יְהַב בִּידָךְ, Ezr 5:12; עֲדָה ב׳ pass over or upon Dn 3:27. of the instrument, by, with Dn 2:30, 34; 3:4; 4:12b, 24, 27 +; 5:2, 3 (Am 6:6: BH III. 2). of the price (ib. III. 3), with, Ezr 7:17, 18. יוֹם בְּיוֹם Ezr 6:9 = day by day (ib. III. 3, end; so Syriac PS 1577; cf.ירח בירח S-C L 5, ܫܢܳܐ ܒܰܫܢܳܐ PS 4240). through, on account of (ib. III. 5), Ezr 6:14. in the matter of, Dn 6:6, 18. after vbs. of ruling, Dn 2:38 +, trusting 6:24, looking at 7:8; עֲבַד בְּ to do with 4:32 Ezr 7:18. cf.Lzb 232 K § 68.

### Jastrow 1903

בְּ־ I: in, within, on out of the very thing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc/#m2)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** prefix (b. h.) in, within, on \&c. בו ביום on that day; באותו מקום in that very place; מיניה וביה from it and in it, i.e. out of the very thing. B. Mets. 101ᵇ אגרא … מיניה וביה she hired carriers, paying them from the very wine which the man had placed in her storeroom.—בֹּון = בְּהוֹן. Y. Ber. II, 4ᶜ bot.; a. fr.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 30 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: none; Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בְּ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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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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[Daniel 5:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.30/)

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בֵּ֚הּ בְּלֵ֣ילְיָ֔א קְטִ֕יל בֵּלְאשַׁצַּ֖ר מַלְכָּ֥א כַשְׂדָּאָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* on it on the night he.was.killed Belshazzar the king the Chaldean

*JPS 1917:* In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.

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