Aramaic word · H5232

נְכַס

nikhsin

wealth

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament.

What it means

riches, property

Aramaic of ne.khes (נֶ֫כֶס "wealth" H5233)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Ezra · 2

  1. Ezra 6:8 וּמִנִּכְסֵ֣י and from [the] properti<es> of

    I hereby decree what you must do for these elders of the Jews who are rebuilding this house of God: The cost is to be paid in full to these men from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces west of the Euphrates, so that the work will not be hindered.

  2. Ezra 7:26 נִכְסִ֖ין properti<es>

    If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.

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