The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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אָע אָעָא‏ n.m. wood

wood Com. Ezra5:8 : וְהוּא מִתְבְּנֵא אֶבֶן גְּלָל וְאָע מִתְּשָׂם בְּכֻתְלַיָּא‏ it is being built with hewn stone and wood is being installed in the walls. TN Ex25:13 : עין דשטין‏ acacia wood. piece of wood, log OfA^Eg-informal, OfA^Eg, BA^Ezra, JLAtg, Sam. Ezra6:11 : יִתְנְסַח אָע מִן־בַּיְתֵהּ וּזְקִיף יִתְמְחֵא עֲלֹהִי‏ let a piece of wood be extracted from his house and he be impaled on it. TgO Gen22:6 : וֻנסֵיב אברהם יָת אָעֵי דַעֲלָתָא‏ .

pl. :shrubbery, wood-bearing plants [Hebrew calque] JLAtg, Sam. TgJ Ez15:6 : כְמָא דְאִילָן גוּפנָא בְאָעֵי חוּרשָא‏ just like the vine tree(!) among the shrubbery of the forest.

Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 68b; DJBA: 152a; Jastrow: 99; Levy Ch-W: 1:52; Tal Sam: 55; DNWSI: 879; DJA: 33a; Cook,Qumran: 185;

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