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Bottom

אַרְעִיStrong’s H0773

arit (ar-it)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Arit is the Aramaic word usually translated “bottom of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.”
Daniel 6:24 KJV
Meaning
  1. Bottom
How it's translated
  • to bottom of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 1

1 book in all.

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    Aramaic dictionary

    אַרְעִי arit · bottom

    bottom Aramaic of e.rets (אֶ֫רֶץ ": soil" H0776H)

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “bottom” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    BOT'TOM, noun

    1. The lowest part of any thing; as the bottom of a well, vat or ship; the bottom of a hill.
    2. The ground under any body of water; as the bottom of the sea, of a river or lake.
    3. The foundation or ground work of any thing, as of an edifice, or of any system or moral subject; the base, or that which supports any superstructure.
    4. A low ground; a dale; a valley; applied in the U.
    All definitions and other forms of “bottom”
    1. The deepest part; that which is most remote from the view; as, let us examine this subject to the bottom
    2. Bound; limit.
    3. The utmost extent or depth of cavity, or of intellect, whether deep or shallow.
    4. The foundation, considered as the cause, spring or origin; the first moving cause; as, a foreign prince is at the bottom of the confederacy.
    5. A ship or vessel.
    6. A ball of thread.
    7. The bottom of a lane or alley, is the lowest end.
    8. The bottom of beer, or other liquor, is the grounds or dregs.
    9. In the language of jockeys, stamina, native strength; as a horse of good bottom

    BOT'TOM, verb transitive

    To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; followed by on; as, sound reasoning is bottomed on just premises.

    1. To furnish with a seat or bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
    2. To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.

    BOT'TOM, verb intransitive

    To rest upon, as its ultimate support.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.