אצבעא
Aramaic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- אֶדְבְּעָא (ʾeḏbəʿā) — Jewish Literary Aramaic
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Semitic *ʔiṣbaʕ-. Compare Hebrew אֶצְבַּע (ʔɛṣbaʕ).
Noun
[edit]אֶצְבְּעָא • (ʾeṣbəʿā) m (plural אֶצְבְּעָתָא) (Imperial Aramaic, Biblical Aramaic, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, Christian Palestinian Aramaic)
- finger
- Tanach, Daniel 5:5, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- בַּהּ־שַׁעֲתָה נפקו (נְפַקָה) אֶצְבְּעָן דִּי יַד־אֱנָשׁ וְכָתְבָן לָקֳבֵל נֶבְרַשְׁתָּא עַל־גִּירָא דִּי־כְתַל הֵיכְלָא דִּי מַלְכָּא וּמַלְכָּא חָזֵה פַּס יְדָא דִּי כָתְבָה׃
- bah-šaʿăṯā nəp̄áqā ʾeṣbəʿān dī yaḏ-ʾĕnāš wəḵāṯəḇān loqŏḇēl neḇraštā ʿal-gīrā dī-ḵəṯal hēḵəlā dī malkā ūmalkā ḥāzē pas yəḏā dī ḵāṯəḇā.
- In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.
- toe
Declension
[edit] declension of אצבעא
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| absolute | אֶצְבַּע | אֶצְבְּעָן |
| construct | אֶצְבַּע | אֶצְבְּעָת |
| emphatic | אֶצְבְּעָא | אֶצְבְּעָתָא |
Further reading
[edit]- H677 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- “ˀṣbˁ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–