Hebrew

To translate

תִּרְגֵּםStrong’s H8638

tirgam (tir-gam)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Tirgam is the Hebrew word usually translated “translated”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.”

Ezra 4:7 KJV

Meaning

(Pual) to interpret, translate

How it's translated

and translated 1

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

Where it's used most

Ezra 1

1 book in all.

Related words

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Hebrew dictionary

תִּרְגֵּם tirgam · to translate

(Pual) to interpret, translate

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

TRANSLA'TE, verb transitive

[Latin translatus, from transfero; trans, over, and fero, to bear.]

To bear, carry or remove from one place to another.
To remove or convey to heaven, as a human being, without death.
To transfer; to convey from one to another. 2 Samuel 3:10
To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.

All definitions

To change.
To interpret; to render into another language; to express the sense of one language in the words of another.
To explain.

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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.