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title: לְחֵנָה — concubine · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: לְחֵנָה (lemma:לְחֵנָה), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 3 times: concubine. BDB 1906: n.f. concubine. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לְחֵנָה

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«לְחֵנָה» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **concubine** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** lemma:לְחֵנָה · **BDB:** לְחֵנָה

### Glosses

concubines (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

concubine [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d7_5b5_5e0_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. concubine [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d7_5b5_5e0_5b8_5d4/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. concubine (𝔗 לְחֵינְתָא; FlLevy NHWB ii. 534 f. cp. Arabic لَخْنَا, indelicate epithet for woman; Batten Ezr 2:65 cp. Arabic لَحْنٌ note, tune, song; still otherwise WetzstDe, HL u. Koh. 454);—pl. sf. לְחֵנָתָךְ Dn 5:23, הּ—ֵ v 2, 3.

### Jastrow 1903

לְחֵנָה

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** , v. sub לְחֵינ׳.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 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 not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לְחֵנָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d7_5b5_5e0_5b8_5d4/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 5:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.3/)

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בֵּאדַ֗יִן הַיְתִיו֙ מָאנֵ֣י דַהֲבָ֔א דִּ֣י הַנְפִּ֗קוּ מִן־הֵֽיכְלָ֛א דִּֽי־בֵ֥ית אֱלָהָ֖א דִּ֣י בִירֽוּשְׁלֶ֑ם וְאִשְׁתִּ֣יו בְּה֗וֹן מַלְכָּא֙ וְרַבְרְבָנ֔וֹהִי שֵׁגְלָתֵ֖הּ וּלְחֵנָתֵֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* then they.brought the.vessels of.(the) gold which they.had.brought.out from the temple which \[was\].the.house of.(the) God which \[was\].in Jerusalem and they.drank with them the king and nobles his wives his and concubines his

*JPS 1917:* Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his lords, his consorts and his concubines, drank in them.

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[Daniel 5:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.2/)

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בֵּלְשַׁאצַּ֞ר אֲמַ֣ר ׀ בִּטְעֵ֣ם חַמְרָ֗א לְהַיְתָיָה֙ לְמָאנֵי֙ דַּהֲבָ֣א וְכַסְפָּ֔א דִּ֤י הַנְפֵּק֙ נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֣ר אֲבוּ֔הִי מִן־הֵיכְלָ֖א דִּ֣י בִירוּשְׁלֶ֑ם וְיִשְׁתּ֣וֹן בְּה֗וֹן מַלְכָּא֙ וְרַבְרְבָנ֔וֹהִי שֵׁגְלָתֵ֖הּ וּלְחֵנָתֵֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* Belshazzar he.said in the.taste of the.wine to bring (et).the vessels of.(the) gold and (the) silver which he.had.brought.out Nebuchadnezzar father his from the temple which \[was\].in Jerusalem so that.they.may.drink with them the king and nobles his wives his and concubines his

*JPS 1917:* Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his consorts and his concubines, might drink therein.

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