גוא
Aramaic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡawɑʔ/
Noun
גוא • (gwʾ or gawa or gawo or gō) m (plural גוא)
Preposition
גוא • (gwʾ)
- inside, within
- circa 1st century, Cooke, G.A., “Nabataean, Petra 1. CIS ii 350. [CTB 94. BPA I 633. MPNab 610]. Circ. 1st cent. A.D. In situ”, in A text-book of north-Semitic inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Jewish, Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, published 1903, Latin and Arabic transliteration by Healey and Nehmé 2025:
- קברא דנה וצריחא רבא די בה וצריחא זעירא גוא מנה די בה בתי מקברין עבידת גוחין...
- ق ب ر ا د ن ه و ص ر ي ح ا ر ب ا د ي ب ه و ص ر ي ح ا ز ع ي ر ا د ي ج و ا م ن ه د ي ب ه ب ت ي م ق ب ر ي ن ع ب ي د ت ج و ح ي ن
- /qbrʾ dnh w ṣryḥʾ rbʾ dy bh w ṣryḥʾ zʿyrʾ dy gwʾ mnh dy bh bty mqbryn ʿbydt gwḥyn/
- "This sepulchre, and the large vault within it, and the small vault inside,[1] within which are burying-places fashioned into niches..."
See also
- Aramaic בְּגוֹא (b'gōʔ, preposition) in; inside, within = Hebrew בְּתוֹךְ[4]
- Aramaic לְגֽוֹא (l'go, preposition) into
- Aramaic גו (gaw, gō, preposition) in; inside, within
- Hebrew גֵּו (gev, noun) torso, trunk
- Hebrew בְּתוֹךְ (b'tókh, preposition) inside, within, in the middle of; into; among
Sources
- Brown, F.; Driver, S.R.; Briggs, C.A. (c. 1905), “גַּו”, in BDB Dictionary, online version on Sefaria.
- Cooke, G.A. (1903), “"CIS II 350." Nabataean Aramaic epitaph, Petra, in situ”, in A text-book of north-Semitic inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Jewish, Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, (Online version on Wellcome Collection), pages 241-242.
- “Daniel 3:6”, in Tanakh, JPS, 1985, online version on Sefaria.
- Healey, J., (2025). “MPNab 610" (=CIS II 350, CTB 94, BPA I 633): Nabataean Aramaic epitaph, Petra, in situ, in L. Nehmé (ed.), online version on DiCoNab: The Digital Corpus of the Nabataean and Developing Arabic Inscriptions
- Jastrow, M. (1903), “גו,”, in A dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic literature, JPS, online version on Sefaria.
- Wehr, Hans (1979), “جيء”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
References
- ^ In a much newer translation of this inscription, the words גוא מנה (gwʾ mnh) are translated together as "beyond" because "gwʾ mn is a compound preposition" (Healey and Nehmé 2025, online version on DiCoNab)
- ^ לְגֽוֹא in Daniel 3:6
- ^ Cooke, G.A. (1903), “Nabataean, Petra 1. CIS ii 350. Circ. 1st cent. A.D. In situ”, in A text-book of north-Semitic inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Jewish, Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, page 242: “Here גוא has final א as in Dan. 3:6, &c. (Arab. جاء intrare [Latin: "to enter"]), elsewhere in Nab. גו.”
- ^ Jastrow, M. (1903), “גו,”, in A dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic literature, JPS: "גַּו n.m. midst (Egyptian Aramaic Nab. Palm. גו; 𝔗 גָּיו; especially cstr. בְּגוֹ, לְגוֹ, מִגּוֹ; so Syriac ܓܰܘ; cf.BH גֵּו, p. 156);—cstr. גּוֹא (so Nab. Cooke No. 94) Dn 3:26 +, 7:15 edd., Gi גּוֹ (Baer גּוֹא, v. on 3:6); sf. 3 ms. גַּוֵּהּ †Ezr 5:7, 3 fs. גַּוַּהּ †4:15; 6:2;—midst, always c. preps.: a. בְּגוֹא (= Heb. בְּתוֹךְ), Dn 3:25 בְּגוֹא נוּרָא, 4:7; 7:15; Ezr 4:15; 5:7 וְכִדְנָה כְתִיב בְּגַוֵּהּ, 6:2. b. לְגוֹא Dn 3:6, 11, 15, 21, 23, 24. c. מִן־גּוֹא Dn 3:26."