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title: גְּשֵׁם — body · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: גְּשֵׁם (lemma:גְּשֵׁם), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 5 times: body. BDB 1906: n.m. body. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גְּשֵׁם

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«גְּשֵׁם» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **body** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** lemma:גְּשֵׁם · **BDB:** גְּשֵׁם

### Glosses

body (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

body [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b0_5bc_5e9_5b5_5c1_5dd/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. body [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b0_5bc_5e9_5b5_5c1_5dd/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dn 4:30 body (v. √ גשׁם in BH; 𝔗J גּוּשְׁמָא, גִּשְׁמָא (DWB 83), Syriac ܓܽܘܫܡܳܐ, body, self);—body of man, sf. גִּשְׁמֵהּ Dn 4:30; 5:21; 7:11, pl. sf. גֶּשְׁמֵיהוּן (K§ 15 a) 3:27, 28, both Kt, Qr sg. גֶּשְׁמְהוֹן (K§ 54, 3b)).

### Jastrow 1903

גֶּשֶׁם II: body, self. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b0_5bc_5e9_5b5_5c1_5dd/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** (גשם, v. גּוּשְׁמָא) body, self. Dan. IV, 30.—Pl. גִּשְׁמַיָּא. Lam. R. to I, 5 לא יהבין גִּשְׁמֵיהוֹן (Koh. R. to VII, 11 גרמיהון) they will not devote themselves to warfare.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גְּשֵׁם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b0_5bc_5e9_5b5_5c1_5dd/), 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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[Daniel 4:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.30/)

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בַּהּ־שַׁעֲתָ֗א מִלְּתָא֮ סָ֣פַת עַל־נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר֒ וּמִן־אֲנָשָׁ֣א טְרִ֔יד וְעִשְׂבָּ֤א כְתוֹרִין֙ יֵאכֻ֔ל וּמִטַּ֥ל שְׁמַיָּ֖א גִּשְׁמֵ֣הּ יִצְטַבַּ֑ע עַ֣ד דִּ֥י שַׂעְרֵ֛הּ כְּנִשְׁרִ֥ין רְבָ֖ה וְטִפְר֥וֹהִי כְצִפְּרִֽין׃

*Word for word:* at it the moment the word it.was.fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar and away.from (the) humankind he.was.chased and (the) grass like oxen he.ate and from the.dew of the.heavens body his it.became.wet until that hair his like eagles it.grew.long and nails his \[were\].like birds

*JPS 1917:* The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair was grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

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