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title: נְשַׁר — griffon-vulture · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: נְשַׁר (lemma:נְשַׁר), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 2 times: griffon-vulture. BDB 1906: n.m. griffon-vulture eagle. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נְשַׁר

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«נְשַׁר» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **griffon-vulture** — 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:נְשַׁר · **BDB:** נְשַׁר

### Glosses

an.eagle (1); eagles (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

griffon-vulture [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. griffon-vulture eagle [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. griffon-vulture or eagle (v. BH);—abs. נ׳ Dn 7:4; pl. abs. נִשְׁרִין 4:30.

### Jastrow 1903

נְשַׁר II: Nishra Nasr [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e8/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** same. Targ. Lev. XI, 13; a. fr.—Pl. נִשְׁרִין, נִשְׁרַיָּא, נִי׳. Targ. Ex. XIX, 4. Targ. II Sam. I, 23.—Erub. 53ᵇ, v. נְקַף I. Nishra, name of an Arabian deity (Sabaean: Nasr). Ab. Zar. 11ᵇ.—\[נשרא, Ber. 8ᵃ, v. נְשַׁר I.\]—קַן נִשְׁרַיָּיא pr. n. pl., v. קֵן ch.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נְשַׁר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e8/), 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 4:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.30/)

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בַּהּ־שַׁעֲתָ֗א מִלְּתָא֮ סָ֣פַת עַל־נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר֒ וּמִן־אֲנָשָׁ֣א טְרִ֔יד וְעִשְׂבָּ֤א כְתוֹרִין֙ יֵאכֻ֔ל וּמִטַּ֥ל שְׁמַיָּ֖א גִּשְׁמֵ֣הּ יִצְטַבַּ֑ע עַ֣ד דִּ֥י שַׂעְרֵ֛הּ כְּנִשְׁרִ֥ין רְבָ֖ה וְטִפְר֥וֹהִי כְצִפְּרִֽין׃

*Word for word:* at it the moment the word it.was.fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar and away.from (the) humankind he.was.chased and (the) grass like oxen he.ate and from the.dew of the.heavens body his it.became.wet until that hair his like eagles it.grew.long and nails his \[were\].like birds

*JPS 1917:* The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair was grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

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