דָּא
dâʼ · H1668 · Aramaic · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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this
Referent to an object or event
ExamplesDaniel 4:30 “The king began speaking and was saying, ‘Is this not Babylon the great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?’
Daniel 5:6 Then the king’s face became pale and his thoughts alarmed him, and his hip joints loosened and his knees began knocking together.
Daniel 7:8 “While I was thinking about the horns, behold, another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the previous horns were plucked out before it; and behold, this horn possessed eyes like human eyes, and a mouth uttering great boasts.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִןfrom 1
- לto/for 1
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- הַלָּז hallâz · H1975 · this
- Both words are Aramaic demonstrative terms with overlapping reference function ("this"). דָּא (dâʼ, H1668) also includes "one...another" and הַלָּז (hallâz, H1975) includes "side" alongside the shared "this", showing functional overlap in the demonstrative sense.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Referents003
- Daniel 7:8 recounts Daniel's vision of the fourth beast, “three of the previous horns were plucked out before it; and behold, this horn possessed eyes like human eyes, and a mouth uttering great boasts.”
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1668. da דָּא demonstrative pronoun feminine this (= Biblical Hebrew זֹה: Zinjirli Têma,…
דָּא demonstrative pronoun feminine this (= Biblical Hebrew זֹה: Zinjirli Têma, Cappadocian, Egyptian Aramaic זא, Nabataean דא, Palmyrene דה (Lzb264: Eph. i. 323 Cooke26), דא ᵑ7: see further below Biblical Hebrew זֶה. The corresponding masculine is דְּנָה); — this, Dan 4:27 רַבְּתָא בַּבֶל דָיא הֲלָא, Dan 5:6 נָ֧קְשָׁן לְדָא דָּא one striking against another, similarly Dan 7:3 (compare זֶה 1b), Dan 7:8 בְקַרְנָאדָֿא.
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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