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title: תִּרְגֵּם — interpret · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תִּרְגֵּם (8638), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: interpret. BDB 1906: vb.quadril. interpret, translate. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תִּרְגֵּם

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«תִּרְגֵּם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **interpret** — 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:** 8638 · **BDB:** תִּרְגֵּם

### Glosses

\[it.was\].translated (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

interpret [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8638/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb.quadril. interpret, translate [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8638/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb.quadril. interpret, translate (Assyrian targumânu, interpreter (so also TelAm.), perhaps from √ רגם, cf.رَجَمَ conjecture, opine WeReste Arabic Heid. 207, v. also DlHWB 713 VollersZA xii. 138; NH = BH; Aramaic תַּרְגֵּם, ܬܰܪܓܶܡ, Arabic تَرْجَمَ );—Pt. pass. מְתֻרְגָּם Ezr 4:7,—On Targum v. WalkerHast. DB s.v..

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תִּרְגֵּם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8638/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 4:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.7/)

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וּבִימֵ֣י אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֗שְׂתָּא כָּתַ֨ב בִּשְׁלָ֜ם מִתְרְדָ֤ת טָֽבְאֵל֙ וּשְׁאָ֣ר כְּנָוֺתָ֔יו עַל־אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֖שְׂתְּ מֶ֣לֶךְ פָּרָ֑ס וּכְתָב֙הַֽנִּשְׁתְּוָ֔ן כָּת֥וּב אֲרָמִ֖ית וּמְתֻרְגָּ֥ם אֲרָמִֽית׃פ

*Word for word:* and in the.days of.Artaxerxes he.wrote Bishlam Mithredath Tabeel and the.rest his.associates his to Artaxerxes the.king of.Persia and the.writing of the.letter \[was\].written Aramaic and \[it.was\].translated Aramaic

*JPS 1917:* And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Aramaic character, and set forth in the Aramaic tongue.

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