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ngr, ngrˀ (naggār, naggārā) n.m. carpenter
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carpenter
Common Aramaic
KetefYer.A.8↗ text not cited ; MurDoc.29.1↗ שטר ארקת נגריא‏ : contract for the carpenters' plots(?) ; TAD A6.2 .9↗ כנופי סגן נגריא‏ : PN chief of the carpenters ; PAT1554:1.1↗ dkyr gdˀ ngd/rˀ ; PTHag 77.b:13[2]↗ אומנותיה דהן נגר‏ : that one's profession is carpenter ; P Is40:19↗ ܨܠܡܐ ܗܘ ܕܥܒܕ ܢܓܪܐ‏ ; BT Mak 8b(27)↗ שוליא דנגארי‏ : carpenters' apprentice ; BT AZ 50b(4)↗ אנא לא נגר אנא ולא בר נגר‏ : I am neither a carpenter nor the son of a carpenter ; GY 6:4↗ lau nangaria ḏpagria taqiniun kursia ḏatutẖ : it is not embodied carpenters who erected the throne beneath him ; TgIChron 22:15↗ פסליא ונגרי אבנא וקיסא‏
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fig.: for a scholar
Gal, JBA
PTYev 9.b:55[2]↗ נגר בר נגרין‏ : a carpenter son of carpenters (i.e. a very learned scholar) ; BT AZ 50b(4)↗ אנא לא נגר אנא ולא בר נגר אנא‏
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artisan
LJLA
TgIIChron 24:12↗ נגרי פרזלא ונחשא‏ : artisans in iron and bronze
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From Akkadian (and ultimately Sumerian); cf. AIOA 75.
There are several instances in the Middle Aramaic monumental dialects where the reading is either ngd or ngr.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 890[415]DJPA: 341aDJBA: 730aJastrow: 877Drower/Macuch: 281a, 283b, 284J. Payne-Smith: 328Levy Ch-W: 2:91DNWSI: 715DCPA[Schulthess]: 257[119]
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