Aramaic word · H5426

נְתַר

'ataru

to strip

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

Appears once in the Aramaic of the Old Testament. ·

What it means

1) to strip off

1a) (Aphel) to strip off

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

Daniel · 1

  1. Daniel 4:14 אַתַּ֥רוּ strip off!

    He called out in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and chop off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it, and the birds from its branches.

    Here: A causative command, 'make fall off': shake or strip the leaves until they drop. This is the only use of the verb in biblical Aramaic.

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