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title: קַבֵּל — receive · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: קַבֵּל (lemma:קַבֵּל), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 3 times: receive. BDB 1906: vb. denom. receive. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קַבֵּל

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«קַבֵּל» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **receive** — 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:קַבֵּל · **BDB:** קַבֵּל

### Glosses

he.received (1); they.will.receive (1); you.will.receive (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

receive [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5d1_5b5_5bc_5dc/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. denom. receive [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5d1_5b5_5bc_5dc/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. receive (BH (late), q.v.; 𝔗 Syriac: proposes come in front of, come to meet, cf. Germ. entgegennehmen);—Pf. 3 ms. קַבֵּל Dn 6:1; Impf. 2 mpl. תְּקַבְּלוּן ye shall receive 2:6, 3 mpl. וִיקַבְּלוּן 7:18; all c. acc. rei.

### Jastrow 1903

קְבַל: to visit to listen, obey to receive, take, accept seize to accept, consent, listen to, obey Pe to be received, accepted Hithpa. to be made the recipient of, to have assigned to [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5d1_5b5_5bc_5dc/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** (with אפי) to visit. Targ. Ps. XLI, 7. Ib. XLV, 10. ק׳ למימרא to listen, obey, v. infra. to receive, take, accept. Targ. Ex. XXIII, 8. Targ. II Sam. XIV, 14 (h. text ישא נפש!). Targ. Ps. XXIV, 5. Targ. Is. XII, 3. Targ. Lev. XX, 17; a. fr.—Targ. Ps. LXII, 11 ed. Lag. (ed. תהבלו = חבל׳ seize), v. הֲבַל.—Esp. ק׳ למימרא to accept, consent, listen to, obey. Targ. Gen. III, 17 (Y. ed. Vien. קְבֵלַת Pe.). Ib. XVI, 2. Targ. Deut. XXVI, 17; a. fr.—B. Mets. 117ᵃ קַבִּילִי עלאי I took upon myself (consented to, was prepared for), v. עֲלִיָּה. Y. Ḥag. II, 77ᵈ מרתא דביתא דקַבַּלְתָּן the mistress of the house who received us (whose guests we were). Sabb. 17ᵃ גזור וקַבְּלוּ מינייהו they decreed the prohibition, and the people accepted it of them. Bekh. 38ᵃ בר קַבּוּלֶי טומאה susceptible of levitical uncleanness; a. fr. to be received, accepted. Targ. Num. XV, 7; 10; 13. Targ. II Chr. XXX, 27; a. fr. (v. preced.Hithpa.) to be made the recipient of, to have assigned to. Targ. O. Deut. XXXIII, 21 ויתקבל בקדמיתא דיליה ed. Berl. (oth. ed. ואתק׳) to him (to God) shall be (has been) assigned a share in the foremost part of it (of the land; h. text וירא ראשית לו).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (12 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קַבֵּל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5d1_5b5_5bc_5dc/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 6:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.1/)

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וְדָרְיָ֙וֶשׁ֙ מָֽדָיָ֔אקַבֵּ֖ל מַלְכוּתָ֑א כְּבַ֥ר שְׁנִ֖ין שִׁתִּ֥ין וְתַרְתֵּֽין׃

*Word for word:* and Darius the Mede he.received the kingdom about a.son of.years sixty and two

*JPS 1917:* And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

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[Daniel 7:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.18/)

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וִֽיקַבְּלוּן֙ מַלְכוּתָ֔א קַדִּישֵׁ֖י עֶלְיוֹנִ֑ין וְיַחְסְנ֤וּן מַלְכוּתָא֙ עַֽד־עָ֣לְמָ֔א וְעַ֖ד עָלַ֥ם עָלְמַיָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.receive the kingdom the.holy.\[ones\] of.the.Most.High and they.will.take.possession.of the kingdom until (the) perpetuity and until (the).perpetuity of.(the) perpetuities

*JPS 1917:* But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.'

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