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title: ה — interrogative particle · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: ה (lemma:ה), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 58 times: interrogative particle. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# ה

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«ה» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **interrogative particle** — 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:** 58 times · **Key:** lemma:ה

### Glosses

river (13); High (6); kingdom (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

interrogative particle [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4/#m1)

### Jastrow 1903

ה: He [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4/#m2)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** He, the fifth letter of the Alphabet.—It interchanges dialectically with א as דָּה a. דָּא, הֵידֵיין a. אֵידֵין, הַגָּדָה a. אַגָּדָה \&c.; with ח as דְּהַךְ a. דְּחַךְ, גָּהָה a. גָּחָה \&c.; with ו as בְּהֵית a. בּוֹשׁ, רְהַט a. רוּץ \&c.—ה a formative prefix of verbal nouns, e.g. הֶסְפֵּד, הוֹלָכָה \&c.

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Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «ה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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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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[Daniel 6:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.29/)

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וְדָנִיֵּ֣אל דְּנָ֔ה הַצְלַ֖ח בְּמַלְכ֣וּת דָּרְיָ֑וֶשׁ וּבְמַלְכ֖וּת כּ֥וֹרֶשׁ פָּרְסָאָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and Daniel this he.prospered in the.reign of.Darius and in the.reign of.Cyrus the Persian

*JPS 1917:* So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

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