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

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«נְדַד» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **flee** — 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:נְדַד · **BDB:** נְדַד

### Glosses

it.fled (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

flee [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d3_5b7_5d3/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. flee [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d3_5b7_5d3/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. flee (v. BH I. נדד);— Pf. 3 fs. שִׁנְּתֵהּ נַדַּת עֲלוֹהִי (K§ 46. Beisp. a)) Dn 6:19.

### Jastrow 1903

נְדַד: to be restless, flee Af. driven about to make sleep flee, to keep awake to cause to be sleepless to be restless, agitated [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d3_5b7_5d3/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** , to be restless, flee. Targ. Job VII, 4. Targ. Ps. LV, 8. Targ. Esth. VI, 1 נָדַת; a. fr. same.Targ. Job XV, 23 (some ed. מַנְדַּד part. pass. Af. driven about). to make (sleep) flee, to keep awake. Targ. Esth. l. c. נַדֵּיד ed. Lag. (ed. Amst. נְדַד; oth. ed. נַדֵּי; corr. acc.). to cause to be sleepless. Targ. II Esth. l. c. to be restless, agitated. Ib.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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 agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נְדַד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d3_5b7_5d3/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 6:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.19/)

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אֱ֠דַיִן אֲזַ֨ל מַלְכָּ֤א לְהֵֽיכְלֵהּ֙ וּבָ֣ת טְוָ֔ת וְדַחֲוָ֖ן לָא־הַנְעֵ֣ל קָֽדָמ֑וֹהִי וְשִׁנְתֵּ֖הּ נַדַּ֥ת עֲלֽוֹהִי׃

*Word for word:* then he.went the king to palace his and he.passed.the.night fasting and diversions not he.brought.in before him and sleep his it.fled on him

*JPS 1917:* Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were diversions brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

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