Copy
פַּרְשֶׁ֫גֶןStrong’s H6573parshegen (par-she-gen)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Parshegen is the Aramaic word usually translated “copy of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.”
Meaning
- Copy
How it's translated
- copy of 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 3
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 4:23Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
- Ezra 5:6The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai, and his companions the Apharsachites, which were on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king:
Aramaic dictionary
פַּרְשֶׁ֫גֶן parshegen · copy
copy Aramaic of pat.she.gen (פַּתְשֶׁ֫גֶן "copy" H6572B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “copy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COPY, noun
[See Cope and Cuff.]
Literally, a likeness, or resemblance of any kind. Hence,
- A writing like another writing; a transcript from an original; or a book printed according to the original; hence, any single book, or set of books, containing a composition resembling the original work; as the copy of a deed, or of a bond; a copy of Addisons works; a copy of the laws; a copy of the scriptures.
- The form of a picture or statue according to the original; the imitation or likeness of any figure, draught, or almost any object.
- An original work; the autograph; the archetype.
- Abundance. [Latin]
All definitions and other forms of “copy”
COPY, verb transitive
- To write, print or engrave, according to an original; to form a like work or composition by writing, printing or engraving; to transcribe; often followed by out, but the use is not elegant.
- To paint or draw according to an original.
- To form according to a model, as in architecture.
- To imitate or attempt to resemble; to follow an original or pattern, in manners or course of life. copy the Savior in his humility and obedience.
COPY, verb intransitive
To imitate or endeavor to be like; to do any thing in imitation of something else. A painter copies from the life. An obedient child copies after his parent.
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.