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

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«זְעֵיר» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **little** — 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:זְעֵיר · **BDB:** זְעֵיר

### Glosses

small (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

little [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e2_5b5_5d9_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. little, small [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e2_5b5_5d9_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. little, small;—fs. קֶרֶן זְעֵירָה Dn 7:8.

### Jastrow 1903

זְעֵיר II: small, young, tender; lesser; little [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e2_5b5_5d9_5e8/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** (preced.) small, young, tender; lesser; a little. Targ. Gen. I, 16. Targ. O. ib. XLIV, 25.—Targ. Gen. XIX, 31; a. fr.—Y. Ber. II, 4ᵇ ז׳ לא … דרבה the inferior does not greet the superior; Y. Shek. II, 47ᵃ top דז׳ (not ר׳ ז׳).—Y. Snh. III, 21ᵃ bot. משום דזעיר מיניה in behalf of one his junior. Y. Keth. V, beg. 29ᶜ ומר ז׳ and said something small (insignificant). Ib. והדא היא ז׳ is this something small?; a. fr.—זְעִירִין, זְעֵירַיָּא. Targ. Y. Ex. XII, 4. Targ. Ps. CXV, 13; a. fr.—Y. M. Kat. III, 82ᵈ top והוא שאיל לז׳ and he asked the inferior (scholars)?—Fem. זְעֵירָן, זְעֵירָתָא. Targ. O. Gen. XXXII, 10.—Targ. Ps. CIV, 25 (Ms. זוטרתא).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זְעֵיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e2_5b5_5d9_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 7:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.8/)

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מִשְׂתַּכַּ֨ל הֲוֵ֜ית בְּקַרְנַיָּ֗א וַ֠אֲלוּ קֶ֣רֶן אָחֳרִ֤י זְעֵירָה֙ סִלְקָ֣ת בֵּֽינֵיהֵ֔ן וּתְלָ֗ת מִן־קַרְנַיָּא֙ קַדְמָ֣יָתָ֔א אֶתְעֲקַ֖רָה מִן־קֳדָמַ֑הּ וַאֲל֨וּ עַיְנִ֜ין כְּעַיְנֵ֤י אֲנָשָׁא֙ בְּקַרְנָא־דָ֔א וּפֻ֖ם מְמַלִּ֥ל רַבְרְבָֽן׃

*Word for word:* considering I.was (in) the horns and lo! a.horn another small it.came.up between them and three of the horns (the) former they.were.uprooted from before it and lo! eyes like the.eyes of.(the) humankind \[were\].on the horn this and a.mouth speaking great.\[things\]

*JPS 1917:* I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots; and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

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