Aramaic word · H7271

רְגַל

beraglaih

foot

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

Appears 7 times in 7 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament. ·

What it means

foot

Aramaic of re.gel (רֶ֫גֶל "foot" H7272)

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 · 7
  1. Daniel 2:33 רַגְל֕וֹהִי feet its

    its legs were iron, and its feet were part iron and part clay.

  2. Daniel 2:34 רַגְל֔וֹהִי feet its

    As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.

    Here: "Its feet." The blow lands at the base and weakest point of a top-heavy figure. Strike the feet and the whole thing comes down.

  3. Daniel 2:41 רַגְלַיָּ֣א feet the

    And just as you saw that the feet and toes were made partly of fired clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom, yet some of the strength of iron will be in it—just as you saw the iron mixed with clay.

  4. Daniel 2:42 רַגְלַיָּ֔א feet the

    And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.

  5. Daniel 7:4 רַגְלַ֙יִן֙ two feet

    The first beast was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man and given the mind of a man.

    Here: "Two feet." The form is grammatically dual, meaning a pair. The point is that the beast now stands on two feet instead of four, as a person does.

  6. Daniel 7:7 בְּרַגְלַ֣הּ with foot its

    After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts before it, and it had ten horns.

    Here: 'With its foot/feet'. The written consonants suggest a plural; the vowels for reading aloud give a singular. Either way it means stamping with its feet.

  7. Daniel 7:19 בְּרַגְלַ֥יהּ with feet its

    Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others—extremely terrifying—devouring and crushing with iron teeth and bronze claws, then trampling underfoot whatever was left.

    Here: 'With its feet', the means of the trampling.

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