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# dura

«dura» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The name of a plain in Babylon where King Nebuchadnezzar…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The name of a plain in Babylon where King Nebuchadnezzar set up a giant gold statue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dura/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Daniel, Dura is where Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah refused to bow to the image. Interpretation: Tradition praises the three friends as heroes who chose to die rather than worship an idol.

### examples

- Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. (Writings DAN.3.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dura/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dura» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dura/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.