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title: עֳפִי — leafage · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: עֳפִי (lemma:עֳפִי), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 3 times: leafage. BDB 1906: n.m. leafage, foliage. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֳפִי

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«עֳפִי» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **leafage** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** lemma:עֳפִי · **BDB:** עֳפִי

### Glosses

foliage (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

leafage [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b3_5e4_5b4_5d9/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. leafage, foliage [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b3_5e4_5b4_5d9/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dn 4:9 leafage, foliage;—sf. עָפְיֵהּ Dn 4:9, 11, 18.

### Jastrow 1903

עֳפִי: sprouting, foliage, branches [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b3_5e4_5b4_5d9/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** (preced.) sprouting, foliage, branches. Targ. Cant. I, 16 (fr. Dan. IV, 18. Targ. Ez. XXXI, 3 עָפְיֵיה Regia (ed. נוֹפֵיה).—Pl. עַפְיָין. Targ. Cant. II, 2 עַפְיָהָא.—V. אוּפֵי.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֳפִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b3_5e4_5b4_5d9/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 4:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.18/)

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וְעָפְיֵ֤הּ שַׁפִּיר֙ וְאִנְבֵּ֣הּ שַׂגִּ֔יא וּמָז֨וֹן לְכֹ֖לָּא־בֵ֑הּ תְּחֹת֗וֹהִי תְּדוּר֙ חֵיוַ֣ת בָּרָ֔א וּבְעַנְפ֕וֹהִי יִשְׁכְּנָ֖ן צִפֲּרֵ֥י שְׁמַיָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and foliage its \[was\].beautiful and fruit its \[was\].plentiful and food for.all \[was\].on it under it it.dwelt the.animal\[s\] of the.field and in branches its they.dwelt the.birds of the.heavens

*JPS 1917:* whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was food for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation;

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[Daniel 4:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.11/)

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קָרֵ֨א בְחַ֜יִל וְכֵ֣ן אָמַ֗ר גֹּ֤דּוּ אִֽילָנָא֙ וְקַצִּ֣צוּ עַנְפ֔וֹהִי אַתַּ֥רוּ עָפְיֵ֖הּ וּבַדַּ֣רוּ אִנְבֵּ֑הּ תְּנֻ֤ד חֵֽיוְתָא֙ מִן־תַּחְתּ֔וֹהִי וְצִפְּרַיָּ֖א מִן־עַנְפֽוֹהִי׃

*Word for word:* \[he.was\].proclaiming with power and as.follows \[he.was\].saying cut.down! the tree and cut.off! branches its strip.off! foliage its and scatter! fruit its let.it.flee the animal\[s\] from under it and the birds from branches its

*JPS 1917:* He cried aloud, and said thus: Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

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