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title: נְטַל — lift · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: נְטַל (lemma:נְטַל), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 2 times: lift. BDB 1906: vb. lift Peʿîl. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נְטַל

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«נְטַל» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **lift** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** lemma:נְטַל · **BDB:** נְטַל

### Glosses

I.lifted (1); it.was.lifted (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

lift [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d8_5b7_5dc/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. lift Peʿîl [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d8_5b7_5dc/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. lift (𝔗 Syriac; BH (rare));— Pf. 1 s. עַיְנַי לִשְׁמַיָּא נִטְלֵת Dn 4:31 (Assyrian naṭâlu = look). Peʿîl (WCG 224) be lifted: Pf. 3 fs. נְטִילַת מִן־אַרְעָא 7:4.

### Jastrow 1903

נְטַל: to take, lift, move, carry to move to wash the hands to lift, carry Part. pass exalted, high to cause to move, to pass to throw to stone Ithpe. to be lifted up; to be exalted to lift one’s self up, be overbearing to be taken away, removed [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d8_5b7_5dc/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** (corresp. to h. נָשָׂא) to take, lift, move, carry. Targ. Ex. X, 13. Targ. Ps. CXXXIV, 2 טוּלוּ (imperat.); a. fr. (corresp. to h. נָסַע) to move. Targ. Gen. XX, 1. Targ. Ps. LV, 9 נָטְלָא (Bxt. נטילה; h. text סעה); a. fr. to wash the hands. Y. Ber. VIII, 12ᵃ bot. הוה נ׳ ידיה is to be considered as if he had washed his hands. to lift, carry. Targ. O. Deut. XXXII, 11. Targ. Is. LXIII, 9; a. e.—Part. pass. מְנַטַּל, מְנַטְּלָא; f. מְנַטְּלָא; pl. מְנַטְּלִין, מְנַטְּלַיָּא; מְנַטְּלָתָא exalted, high. Targ. Y. Deut. XXVIII, 13 (opp. מאיסין). Targ. Y. I ib. IV, 7. Targ. Is. LVII, 15. Targ. II Esth. I, 2. Targ. Prov. XXX, 13. Targ. Y. Ex. XV, 1 (not מַנְטְלַ׳). Targ. Is. II, 14. to cause to move, to pass. Targ. Ex. XV, 22. Targ. Ps. LXXVIII, 26. Targ. Y. Deut. XXVI, 9; a. fr. to throw; א׳ (ב)אבנין to stone to death. Targ. Y. Deut. XIII, 11 תְאַנְטלוּן, תְאַטְּ׳ (!); a. fr.—\[Targ. Y. II, Ex. XXXIII, 22, v. טְלַל.\] ; Ithpe. אִתְנְטִיל, אִינְּ׳ to be lifted up; to be exalted. Targ. Ps. XC, 2. Targ. Y. Ex. XV, 1; a. e. to lift one’s self up, be overbearing. Targ. Y. Num. XVII, 5. to be taken away, removed. Targ. Job IV, 21. Targ. Esth. VIII, 10; a. e.—\[Snh. 91ᵃ (quot. fr. Meg. Taan. ch. III) אתנטילו דימוסנאי, v. דִּימוֹסְנָאֵי.\]

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נְטַל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d8_5b7_5dc/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 7:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.4/)

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קַדְמָיְתָ֣א כְאַרְיֵ֔ה וְגַפִּ֥ין דִּֽי־נְשַׁ֖ר לַ֑הּ חָזֵ֣ה הֲוֵ֡ית עַד֩ דִּי־מְּרִ֨יטוּ גַפַּ֜יהּ וּנְטִ֣ילַת מִן־אַרְעָ֗א וְעַל־רַגְלַ֙יִן֙ כֶּאֱנָ֣שׁ הֳקִימַ֔ת וּלְבַ֥ב אֱנָ֖שׁ יְהִ֥יב לַֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* the first \[was\].like a.lion and wings (diy).of an.eagle \[were\].to it seeing I.was until that they.were.plucked.off wings its and it.was.lifted away.from the earth and on two.feet like a.human it.was.made.to.stand and a.heart of.a.human it.was.given to it

*JPS 1917:* The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings; I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon two feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.

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[Daniel 4:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.31/)

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וְלִקְצָ֣ת יֽוֹמַיָּה֩ אֲנָ֨ה נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֜ר עַיְנַ֣י ׀ לִשְׁמַיָּ֣א נִטְלֵ֗ת וּמַנְדְּעִי֙ עֲלַ֣י יְת֔וּב וּלְעִלָּאָה֙ בָּרְכֵ֔ת וּלְחַ֥י עָלְמָ֖א שַׁבְּחֵ֣ת וְהַדְּרֵ֑ת דִּ֤י שָׁלְטָנֵהּ֙ שָׁלְטָ֣ן עָלַ֔ם וּמַלְכוּתֵ֖הּ עִם־דָּ֥ר וְדָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and to the.end of the.days I Nebuchadnezzar eyes my to the heavens I.lifted and understanding my on me it.returned and.(et) the Most High I.blessed and.(et) the.\[one\] living of.(the) perpetuity I.praised and I.glorified that dominion his \[is\].a.dominion of.perpetuity and kingdom his \[is\].with generation and generation

*JPS 1917:* 'And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured Him that liveth for ever; for His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom from generation to generation;

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