To interpret
פְּשַׁרStrong’s H6590peshar (pe-shar)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Peshar is the Aramaic word usually translated “interpreter of” and “interpret”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.”
Meaning
- To interpret(P'al) to interpret · (Pael) to interpret
How it's translated
- an interpreter of 1
- to interpret 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
Related words
Aramaic dictionary
פְּשַׁר peshar · to interpret
1) to interpret 1a) (P'al) to interpret 1b) (Pael) to interpret
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “interpret” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
INTER'PRET, verb transitive
[Latin interpretor, from interpres.]
- To explain the meaning or words to a person who does not understand them; to expound; to translate unintelligible words into intelligible ones; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman.
- To explain or unfold the meaning of predictions, vision, dreams or enigmas; to expound and lay open what is concealed from the understanding; as, Joseph interpreted the dream of Pharaoh.
- To decipher.
- To explain something not understood; as, to interpret looks or signs.
All definitions
- To define; to explain words by other words in the same language.
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.