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qym (qayyām) adj. enduring
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enduring
Common Aramaic
NsaqPap 25.R.3↗ ו̇הו̇ קים̇[ ٠٠٠‏ ; P Gn29:7↗ ܗܐ ܥܕܟܝܠ ܝܘܡܐ ܩܝܡ‏ : look, it is still daytime ; Heb 4:1↗ ܟܕ ܩܲܝܵܡ ܡܘ݂ܠܟ̇ܵܢܵܐ‏ : as long as the promise endures
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alive, surviving
Common Aramaic
TgO Gen43:7↗ הְעַד כְעַן אֲבוּכוֹן קַיָים‏ : is your father alive up to now? ; Amulet 42:31↗ ובה זבנה קימיה וכל נפיש תיבד‏ : at that moment the living and every soul will perish ; SamTgJ Ex4:18↗ ואחזי הכדון קעימים‏ : so I may see if they are still alive
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OfAEg
TAD A4.7R.10↗ ודשיהם קימן‏ : while their door-panels survive (or: are still standing?)
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(in an oath formula) as lives
JLAtg, Sam
TgJ Jer46:18↗ קַיָים אֲנָא‏ : [MT חַי־אָנִי] ; SamTgJ Num14:21↗ וארום קעים אנא‏ : [Heb.: ואולם חי אני]
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(of God) truly existing
BADan, JLAtg, JBAmb
Dan 6:27↗ הוּא אֱלָהָא חַיָּא וְקַיָּם לְעָלְמִין‏ : He is the living God and endures forever ; TgJ Is37:4↗ לְחַסָדָא עַמָא דַיוי קַייָמָא‏ : to revile the people of the true God ; JBABowl 102.1:6↗ לאלהא חיא וקימא דקים ליעלם ולעולמי עולמים‏ : the living and existing God who exists for ever and ever
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valid
Nabatean, Syr, JBA
BT BB 160b(43)↗ שריר וקיים‏ : firm and valid (of a document)
(1)
given, established
Syr, JBA
AphDem19.367:11↗ ܐܢ ܓܝܪ ܩܝܡ ܠܗܘܢ ܕܢܬܟܢܫܘܢ ܘܢܬܦܪܩܘܢ‏ : if it is a given for them that they shall be gathered in and saved
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Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 1362[654]DJPA: 490aDJBA: 1012bJastrow: 1359Drower/Macuch: 400aJ. Payne-Smith: 504Levy Ch-W: 2:358Tal Sam: 767DNWSI: 1008DJA: 77b

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