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זְבַן

zᵉban · H2084 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to gain time

    Literally: to buy time; hence: causative action by which humans try to cause other humans to delay an event

    Examples

    Daniel 2:8 The king replied, “I know for certain that you are trying to buy time, because you have perceived that the command from me is firm,

How it’s used In 3 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
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Daniel 2:8 has the king reply to the Chaldeans, “I know for certain that you are trying to buy time, because you have perceived that the command from me is firm.”
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2084. zeban [זְבַן] verb buy, gain (ᵑ7 id., buy, Syriac Old Aramaic, Nabataean,…
H2084. zeban
[זְבַן] verb buy, gain (ᵑ7 id., buy, Syriac Old Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene זבן (often) Lzb266 SAC47, compare Assyrian zibânîtu, scales);-
Pe`al Participle active plural זָבְנִין Dan 2:8 time ye (are seeking to) gain.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Non-Engage1 occurrence

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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