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They answeredעֲנוֹand saidוְאָמְרִיןto Kingלִ מַלְכָּאNebuchadnezzar,נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר“O king,מַלְכָּאliveחֱיִיforever!לְעָלְמִין
Daniel 3:9
Study it in the app“They answered and said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, live forever!”
With the Aramaic beneath
Daniel 3:9, word by word
- They answeredעֲנוֹano
answer
To answer, to speak up in reply.
Where else “ano” appears- and saidאָמְרִיןamrin
say
To speak to someone with words, answer him or set out what one thinks (Aramaic).
Where else “amrin” appears- to Kingמַלְכָּmalka
king
King (Aramaic). The same word as the Hebrew "melech".
Where else “malka” appears- Nebuchadnezzarנְבוּכַדְנֶצַּרnevuchadnetsar
Nebuchadnezzar
Nebuchadnezzar (the Aramaic form of the name): king of Babylon who took Jerusalem, destroyed the temple and carried the people of Judah into exile.
Where else “nevuchadnetsar” appears- liveחֱיִיcheyi
live
To live (Aramaic). "O king, live forever!" is a greeting to the king.
Where else “cheyi” appears- foreverעָלְמִיןalmin
antiquity, forever
Distant time, backward or forward: "of old", "forever" (Aramaic). Related to the Hebrew "olam".
Where else “almin” appears
The context
8Because of this, at that time, certain Chaldean men came forward and accused the Jews.
9 · This verse (above)
10You, O king, have made a decree that every man who hears the sound of the horn, the flute, the zither, the sambuca, the psaltery, and the bagpipe, and every kind of music, shall fall down and bow down to the image of gold;