H2178 H2178
Kind, sort, type; used in Aramaic portions of Daniel for categories of musical instruments.
An Aramaic noun meaning 'kind' or 'sort,' appearing exclusively in Daniel 3 within the repeated formula describing Nebuchadnezzar's orchestra. Each of its four occurrences (Dan 3:5, 7, 10, 15) is part of the phrase 'all kinds of music,' listing the instruments that signal the moment to bow before the golden image. The multilingual glosses confirm its classificatory sense: English 'kinds of,' Spanish 'tipo de,' German 'Art.' Its restriction to this single Aramaic context makes it a narrow but vivid term for categorical sorting.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Kind, sort, or category—specifically of things grouped by type. All four biblical occurrences appear in the construct phrase 'kinds of music' (זְנֵי זְמָרָא) in Daniel 3:5, 7, 10, 15, each time enumerating the instrumental ensemble that commands prostration before the image. English renders it 'kinds of,' Spanish 'tipo de,' French 'multitude,' and German 'Art,' all converging on the notion of classification or variety. The word's Aramaic cognates in Syriac and Targumic literature carry the same taxonomic sense. 4×
AR["أَنْوَاعِ"]·ben["প্রকার"]·DE["Art"]·EN["kinds-of"]·FR["multitude"]·heb["מיני"]·HI["प्रकार"]·ID["jenis"]·IT["specie"]·jav["warni"]·KO["종류의"]·PT["tipo-de"]·RU["вида"]·ES["tipo-de"]·SW["aina-ya"]·TR["türlerini"]·urd["قسموں"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [זַן] n.[m.] kind, sort (𝔗 Syriac; cf. BH);—pl. cstr. זְנֵי זְמָרָא Dn 3:5, 7, 10, 15.