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title: לָא — not · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: לָא (lemma:לָא), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 82 times: not. BDB 1906: adv. not. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לָא

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«לָא» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **not** — 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:** 82 times · **Key:** lemma:לָא · **BDB:** לָא

### Glosses

not (79); not? (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

not [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b8_5d0/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adv. not [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b8_5d0/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (לָה †Dn 4:32) adv. not (BH לא; Aramaic of Têma, Egyptian, etc., לא; Nerab ל (Lzb 301 CookGl. 67); 𝔗 לָא; Syriac ܠܴܐ );—not Je 10:11; Dn 2:5, 9, 10, etc.; before a ptcp. (so rarely in BH, 1 b c), 2:27, 43; 3:16; 4:4, 6, 15 +, so v 32 וְכָל־דָּאְרֵי אַרְעָא כְּלָה חֲשִׁיבִין are as men not accounted of (so Bev Behrm Marti, cf. Is 53:3 𝔗 בסירין ולא חשׁיבין; \> most ‘accounted as nothing,’ for which no analogy, yet cf. ψ 39:6 𝔗); sq. אִיתַי, v. אִיתַי. With inf. and לְ Dn 6:9 דִּי לָא לִהַשְׁנָיָה which it is not to alter = which is not to be altered (cf. v 16), Ezr 6:8 (K§ 67, 1 Dr§ 202, 2; cf. Is 35:6 𝔗, DAramaic Dialektproben, p. 1). With interr. הֲלָא †Dn 3:24; 4:27; 6:13.

### Jastrow 1903

לָא I

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. Gen. II, 5; a. v. fr.—Pes. 10ᵇ מקמיה … אין בתר … לא before the time when it is forbidden, yes (he must search after leavened bread); after the time, no (he must not search). Ib. לא שנא there is no difference; a. v. fr.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 17 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (27 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לָא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b8_5d0/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 3:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.11/)

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וּמַן־דִּי־לָ֥א יִפֵּ֖ל וְיִסְגֻּ֑ד יִתְרְמֵ֕א לְגֽוֹא־אַתּ֥וּן נוּרָ֖א יָקִֽדְתָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and whoever that not he.will.fall.down and he.will.pay.homage he.will.be.thrown to the.midst of.the.furnace of the.fire (the) burning

*JPS 1917:* and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

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[Daniel 5:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.22/)

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וְאַ֤נְתְּ בְּרֵהּ֙ בֵּלְשַׁאצַּ֔ר לָ֥א הַשְׁפֵּ֖לְתְּ לִבְבָ֑ךְ כָּל־קֳבֵ֕ל דִּ֥י כָל־דְּנָ֖ה יְדַֽעְתָּ׃

*Word for word:* and you son his O.Belshazzar not you.have.brought.low heart your as to because that all this you.knew

*JPS 1917:* And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this;

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