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

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«קְרָב» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **war** — 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:קְרָב · **BDB:** קְרָב

### Glosses

war (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

war [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d1/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

war [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d1/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (K§ 57 a)) n.\[m.\] war (𝔗 Syriac NH id.; BH as Aramaism);—abs. Dn 7:21.

### Jastrow 1903

קְרָב: hostile contact, attack, war [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d1/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** preced. wds.) hostile contact, attack, war. Y. Sot. VIII, 21ᶜ top רומי לק׳ the Roman (Latin) language is adapted for military affairs; Y. Meg. I, 71ᵇ bot.; Esth. R. to I, 22. Sabb. 59ᵃ בשעה שבורח מן הק׳ וכ׳ when he flees from the battle, he puts it on \&c.; a. e.

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (15 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קְרָב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d1/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 7:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.21/)

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חָזֵ֣ה הֲוֵ֔ית וְקַרְנָ֣א דִכֵּ֔ן עָבְדָ֥ה קְרָ֖ב עִם־קַדִּישִׁ֑ין וְיָכְלָ֖ה לְהֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* seeing I.was and the horn this \[was\].making war with \[the\].holy.\[ones\] and \[it.was\].prevailing to them

*JPS 1917:* I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

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