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mdnḥ, mdnḥˀ (maḏnaḥ, maḏnḥā) n.m./f. east
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east
Common Aramaic
GenApoc 21.9↗ שקול עיניך וחזי למדנחא ולמערבא ולדרומא ולצפונא‏ : lift up your eyes and look to the east and to the west and to the south and to the north ; PTBer 2.c:37[2]↗ תרין דוקרנין דנהור דסלקין מן מדינחא ומנהרין‏ : two forks of light which go up from the east and shine ; PTBB 13.c:19[2]↗ לא ^תהל{ו}<י>ך^ ממדינחיה אלא ממערביה‏ : don't walk with him at his (i.e. the leper's) eastern side, but at his western side ; EphPar 6:22.1↗ ܡܕܢܚܐ ܒܗܘܢ ܢܗܪܬ‏ ; P Ez11:23↗ ܕܒܡܕܢܚܝܗ݀ ܕܡܕܝܢܬܐ‏ ; P Mt2:1↗ ܡܲܕ݂ܢܚܵܐ ܠܽܐܘܪܼܫܠܸܡ‏ ; BT BB 91b(15)↗ למדנח קרתא‏ : east of the town
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(often as plural collective)
Syr
P Gn3:24var.↗ ܡܢ \ܡܕܢܚ ܠܦܪܕܝܣܐ /ܡ̈ܕܢܚܝ ܦܪܕܝܣܐ‏
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rising of the sun
Common Aramaic
TgO Deut4:41↗ בְעִברָא דְיַרדְנָא מַדנַח שִמשָא‏ : on the eastern side of the Jordan
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birth horoscope/sign
Man
AM 1:11↗ man ḏmadnẖ ˁmbra : one who is born under the sign of Aries
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generally masculine as a direction, feminine as an area; Sam. also מנע
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LS2 list the plural form as a separate word and inexplicably vocalizes it with a long /a/ vowel. Nothing in the usages he sites suggests that either is the case.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 716[160]DJPA: 292bDJBA: 643aJastrow: 734Drower/Macuch: 239bJ. Payne-Smith: 254Levy Ch-W: 2:11Tal Sam: 191DNWSI: 597DISO: 143DCPA[Schulthess]: 210[48]BarBahlul: 1014:14Qumran: 133

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