אַרְעִית
ʼarʻîyth · H773 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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bottom
A reference to the lowest part of a space
ExamplesDaniel 6:24 The king then gave orders, and they brought those men who had maliciously accused Daniel, and they threw them, their children, and their wives into the lions’ den; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גֹּבden 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
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
- תַּחְתִּי tachtîy · H8482 · lower
- Hebrew term for the lowest part or bottom, used of spatial location (underneath, nethermost); synonymous with אַרְעִית in denoting the bottom or lowest position
Contrasting words 1 word
- רֹאשׁ rôʼsh · H7218 · head, beginning
- Standard lexical opposite for spatial position: 'top/head' versus 'bottom'; רֹאשׁ denotes the uppermost part while אַרְעִית denotes the lowest
In the other Testament 1 word
- βυθός bythós · G1037 · open sea, high sea, the deep
- Greek equivalent for the lowest part or bottom, particularly of the sea or deep waters; directly matches the spatial sense of אַרְעִית as 'bottom'
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Spatial Referents003002005
- Daniel 6:24 recounts the fate of Daniel's accusers, “they brought those men who had maliciously accused Daniel, and they threw them, their children, and their wives into the lions' den; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.”
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H773. ari [אַרְעִי] noun feminine denominative bottom (so ᵑ7; compare also אַרְעָאָה ᵑ7…
[אַרְעִי] noun feminine denominative bottom (so ᵑ7; compare also אַרְעָאָה ᵑ7 lower); — construct אַרְעַית Dan 6:25.
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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