פַּרְזֶל
parzel · H6523 · Aramaic · 20 occurrences
Meanings
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iron
A strong, hard magnetic silvery-grey metal, used in construction and manufacturing; associated with strength and permanence
ExamplesDaniel 2:33 its legs of iron, and its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.
Daniel 2:34 “You continued watching until a stone was broken off without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.
Daniel 2:35 “Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed to pieces all at the same time, and they were like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the entire earth.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רְעַעbreak 1
What it doesIt is the subject
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- עֲרַבmingle 3
- דְּקַקbreak to pieces 2
- חֲשַׁלsubdue 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דְּקַקbreak to pieces 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- הֶןthem 3
- שֵׁןtooth 1
- שָׁקleg 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 5
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 3 words
- σιδήρεος sidḗreos · G4603 · made of iron
- Greek adjectival form denoting objects made of iron, systematically rendering the Hebrew noun for the metal iron itself in material-composition contexts.
- σίδηρος sídēros · G4604 · iron
- Greek σίδηρος is the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew פַּרְזֶל, both denoting the metal iron in literal and metaphorical contexts.
- בַּרְזֶל barzel · H1270 · iron
- פַּרְזֶל (parzel, H6523) (Aramaic פַּרְזֶל) and בַּרְזֶל (barzel, H1270) (Hebrew בַּרְזֶל) are sister-language cognates both denoting iron as a metal, representing the same Semitic root across Aramaic and Hebrew portions of the biblical corpus.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Metals001002005008
- Daniel 2:33 has Daniel interpret the statue's parts, “its legs of iron, and its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.”
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6523. parzel מַּרְזֶל19 noun masculineDan 2:40 iron (ᵑ7 Syriac; see Biblical Hebrew…
מַּרְזֶל19 noun masculineDan 2:40 iron (ᵑ7 Syriac; see Biblical Hebrew בַּרְזֶל); — absolute Dan 2:33 (זֶ֑ל-), Dan 4:12 +; emphatic מַּרְזְלָא Dan 2:34 +; — Dan 2:33-34, Dan 2:11t. 2; Dan 4:12; Dan 4:20; Dan 5:4, Dan 5:23; Dan 7:7, Dan 7:19.
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
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