Aramaic word · H8533

תְּלָתִין

telatin

thirty

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

thirty

Aramaic of she.lo.shim (שְׁלֹשִׁים "thirty" H7970)

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 · 2

  1. Daniel 6:7 תְּלָתִ֗ין thirty

    All the royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce a decree that for thirty days anyone who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions.

    Here: Thirty days, about one month: a short, symbolic period of exclusive loyalty to the crown.

  2. Daniel 6:12 תְּלָתִ֗ין thirty

    So they approached the king and asked about his royal decree: “Did you not sign a decree that for thirty days any man who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions?” The king replied, “According to the law of the Medes and Persians the order stands, and it cannot be repealed.”

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.