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title: לֵילֵי — night · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: לֵילֵי (lemma:לֵילֵי), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 5 times: night. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לֵילֵי

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«לֵילֵי» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **night** — 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:לֵילֵי

### Glosses

the (3); of (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

night [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b5_5d9/#m1)

### Jastrow 1903

לֵילֵי

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** , v. לֵילָא

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Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 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, only a cross-reference (15 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לֵילֵי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b5_5d9/), 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 2:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.19/)

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אֱדַ֗יִן לְדָנִיֵּ֛אל בְּחֶזְוָ֥א דִֽי־לֵילְיָ֖א רָזָ֣ה גֲלִ֑י אֱדַ֙יִן֙ דָּֽנִיֵּ֔אל בָּרִ֖ךְ לֶאֱלָ֥הּ שְׁמַיָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* then to Daniel in the vision (diy).of the night the secret it.was.revealed then Daniel he.blessed (et).the God of the.heavens

*JPS 1917:* Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

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