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

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«נְמַר» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **leopard** — 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:נְמַר · **BDB:** נְמַר

### Glosses

a.leopard (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

leopard [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5de_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

leopard [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5de_5b7_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] leopard (v. BH);—abs. Dn 7:6.

### Jastrow 1903

נְמַר

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. Jer. V, 6; a. e.—Y. Peah III, 17ᶜ top (expl. המנמר ib. III, 2) כהדין נימרה making the field look checkered like a tiger (or leopard), v. נִמְרִירָה.—Pl. נִמְרִין, נִמְרַיָּא, נִי׳. Targ. Cant. IV, 8 (ed. Vien. נְמֵרִין). Targ. Hab. I, 8.—\[בית נמרי, בית נמרא, נמרין, v. next w.\]

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נְמַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5de_5b7_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 7:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.6/)

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בָּאתַ֨ר דְּנָ֜ה חָזֵ֣ה הֲוֵ֗ית וַאֲר֤וּ אָֽחֳרִי֙ כִּנְמַ֔ר וְלַ֨הּ גַּפִּ֥ין אַרְבַּ֛ע דִּי־ע֖וֹף עַל־גַּבַּ֑הּ וְאַרְבְּעָ֤ה רֵאשִׁין֙ לְחֵ֣יוְתָ֔א וְשָׁלְטָ֖ן יְהִ֥יב לַֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* after this seeing I.was and lo! another like a.leopard and to it wings four (diy).of a.bird \[were\].on back its and four heads \[were\].to the beast and dominion it.was.given to it

*JPS 1917:* After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the sides of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

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