Lexical Definition

‎נִדְנֶה‎ nidneh (nid-neh') sheath ^A:N-M
(Aramaic) from the same as ‎נָדָן‎

body.

• a sheath
• figuratively, the body (as the receptacle of the soul)

1) sheath
1a) meaning uncertain

Extended Information

Aramaic of: נָדָן

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Hebrew form: נָדָן
[‎גין‎] with ‎בְּ‎, ‎בְּגִין‎ preposition on account of (so Galilean Aramaic, D^{§ 47, 3}), read perhaps in Dan 7:15: see ‎נִדְגֵה‎.

‎נִדְנֵ֑ה‎ (Masora Baer) noun [masculine] sheath (ᵑ7 ‎נְדָן‎, ‎לְדָן‎; see Biblical Hebrew (late) ‎נָדָן‎, Persian loan-word); — ‎׳‎‎בְּ֗֗֗נ‎ Dan 7:15 my spirit in (its) sheath, i.e. my body; < ‎נִדְנָה‎ emphatic, or suffix ‎נִדְנַהּ‎ (K^{§ 54, 3.} β)); or (Nö^{GGA. 1884, 1022} Bev) ‎נְדָנַהּ‎; but expression at best strange; read probably ‎בְּגִין דְּנָה‎ on account of this (‎בְּגִין‎ as ‎ᵑ7‎^J; D^{§ 47. 3 (2nd ed. 47. 10)}), M^72* compare Buhl Dr.

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