בְּרַם
bᵉram · H1297 · Aramaic · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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but, nevertheless, nonetheless, however, yet
A marker that introduces a different line of thought, which does not necessarily contradict what was said before
ExamplesEzra 5:13 ‘However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.
Daniel 2:28 “However, there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the latter days. This was your dream and the visions in your mind while on your bed.
Daniel 4:15 “Yet leave the stump with its roots in the ground, But with a band of iron and bronze around it In the new grass of the field; And let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, And let him share with the animals in the grass of the earth.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀλλά allá · G235 · but, instead, on the contrary
- Both בְּרַם (bᵉram, H1297) and ἀλλά (allá, G235) function as contrastive conjunctions marking adversative relationships between clauses; בְּרַם (bᵉram, H1297) (Aramaic) and ἀλλά (allá, G235) (Greek) serve as direct translation equivalents across testaments for expressing semantic contrast or exception ('but,' 'yet,' 'nevertheless').
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Contrastors004002
- Ezra 5:13 quotes the report to King Darius, “however, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.”
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1297. beram בְּרַם adverb with adversative force, only, nevertheless (derivation…
בְּרַם adverb with adversative force, only, nevertheless (derivation uncertain: NöM 202 = מָא + בָּר, literally except what: בְּרַם ᵑ7 often for אוּלָם אַח,; Syriac Exo 9:16; Exo 21:21, and in NT for πλήν; Christian-Palestinian Aramaic , ); — Dan 2:28; Dan 4:12 hew down the tree etc., שְׁבֻקוּ ֗֗֗ בְּרַם only leave the stump, etc., Dan 4:20; Dan 5:17; Ezr 5:13.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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