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title: פְּרֵס — half-mina · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: פְּרֵס (lemma:פְּרֵס), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 2 times: half-mina. BDB 1906: halfmina. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פְּרֵס

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«פְּרֵס» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **half-mina** — 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:פְּרֵס · **BDB:** פְּרֵס

### Glosses

peres (1); pharsin (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

half-mina [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b5_5e1/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

halfmina [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b5_5e1/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (read פְּרָס? M 78\* f.) prob. n.\[m.\] halfmina (NH פְּרָס, Old Aramaic פרס, פרש Lzb 354 SAC 99 Cooke 176, 406; v. מְנֵא and reff.);—abs. פ׳ Dn 5:28; pl. (וּ)פַרְסִין \[read פְּרָסִין? v. Ml.c.\] v 25.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates); Jastrow: none

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פְּרֵס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b5_5e1/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 5:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.28/)

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פְּרֵ֑ס פְּרִיסַת֙ מַלְכוּתָ֔ךְ וִיהִיבַ֖ת לְמָדַ֥י וּפָרָֽס׃

*Word for word:* peres it.has.been.broken.in.two kingdom your and it.has.been.given to Medes and Persians

*JPS 1917:* PERES, thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.'

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[Daniel 5:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.25/)

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וּדְנָ֥ה כְתָבָ֖א דִּ֣י רְשִׁ֑ים מְנֵ֥א מְנֵ֖א תְּקֵ֥ל וּפַרְסִֽין׃

*Word for word:* and this \[is\].the writing which it.was.inscribed mene mene teqel and pharsin

*JPS 1917:* And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN.

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