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title: מְדֹור — dwelling-place · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: מְדֹור (lemma:מְדֹור), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 1 times: dwelling-place. BDB 1906: n.m. id. With 1 verse in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְדֹור

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«מְדֹור» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **dwelling-place** — 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:מְדֹור · **BDB:** מְדָר

### Glosses

their.dwelling (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

dwelling-place [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5d3_5b9_5d5_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. id. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5d3_5b9_5d5_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. id.;—sf. מְדָֽרְהוֹן Dn 2:11.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: none

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְדֹור» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5d3_5b9_5d5_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 2:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.11/)

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וּמִלְּתָ֨א דִֽי־מַלְכָּ֤ה שָׁאֵל֙ יַקִּירָ֔ה וְאָחֳרָן֙ לָ֣א אִיתַ֔י דִּ֥י יְחַוִּנַּ֖הּ קֳדָ֣ם מַלְכָּ֑א לָהֵ֣ן אֱלָהִ֔ין דִּ֚י מְדָ֣רְה֔וֹן עִם־בִּשְׂרָ֖א לָ֥א אִיתֽוֹהִי׃

*Word for word:* and the matter which the king \[is\].asking \[is\].difficult and.\[is\] another not there who he will.declare.it before the king except gods who their.dwelling place \[is\].with (the) flesh not there it

*JPS 1917:* And it is a hard thing that the king asketh, and there is none other that can declare it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.'

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