The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

view in outline mode only View the Full CAL Entry

צְרִיךְ‏ adj. poor; needy

poor, needy PTA, CPA, Sam, Syr, Man. TN Deut15:11 : למסכינייה ולצריכיכון בארעכון‏ . w. infinitive : need to ..., must ... JLAtg, Gal, PTA, LJLA. TgJ 2Sam21:4 : לֵית אְנַחנָא צְרִיכִין לְמִסַב כְסַף‏ we do not need to take money. FTV Deut25:2 : ויהויי אין צריך חייבא למילקי‏ if the sinner needs to be lashed. PJ Ex16:23 : ית דאתון צריכין למיפא מחר איפו יומא דין‏ that which you need to bake tomorrow bake today. (usually w. ב‏) or relative clause : in need of, requiring JLAtg, Sam, JBA, LJLA. TgO Gen16:12 : הוּא יְהֵי צְרִיך לְכוֹלָא/בכולא/‏ he will be in need of everything. PJ Lev23:42 : ואפילו זעירי דלא צריכין לאימהון‏ even the little ones who (no longer) have need of their mother. TgIChron 28:12 : וצורת כל דהוה צריך‏ a diagram of everything that was required.

For impersonal usage of the p.p. see the main verbal entry. LJLA exxs. governing the object with l_ instead of b_ are thus to be seen as scribal errors.

Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 469b; DJBA: 972; Jastrow: 1301; DJA: 75b;

View a complete KWIC

Derivatives:

ṣrykw, ṣrykwtˀ (ṣrīḵū, ṣrīḵūṯā) n.f. want