H3358 H3358
Aramaic adjective meaning honorable or difficult, depending on context
This Aramaic loanword appears twice in biblical Aramaic sections, carrying two distinct but related meanings. In Ezra 4:10 it describes nobles or honorable persons who were deported, using the emphatic Aramaic form. In Daniel 2:11 it describes a difficult or hard matter, specifically the king's demand that his counselors reveal his dream without being told its content. The semantic range from "weighty" extends naturally to both social weight (honor) and practical weight (difficulty).
Senses
1. sense 1 — Found in Ezra 4:10 (describing noble deportees) and Daniel 2:11 (describing a difficult request). The shift from honor to difficulty reflects the core sense of weightiness or significance. Spanish and English glosses distinguish the two uses (noble vs. difficult), while French and German preserve the Hebrew/Aramaic scripts, recognizing the Aramaic linguistic context of both passages. 2×
AR["صَعْبَةٌ", "وَ-الشَّرِيفُ"]·ben["আর-মহান", "কঠিন"]·DE["[ויקירא]", "[יקירה]"]·EN["and-noble", "is-difficult"]·FR["[ויקירא]", "lien"]·heb["ו-יקירא", "יקרה"]·HI["और-प्रतिष्ठित", "कठिन-है"]·ID["dan-mulia", "sulit"]·IT["[ויקירא]", "[יקירה]"]·jav["awrat", "lan-kang-mulya"]·KO["그리고-귀한", "어려운-것이다"]·PT["difícil", "e-o-nobre"]·RU["и-славный", "трудное"]·ES["es-difícil", "y-noble"]·SW["gumu", "na-mtukufu"]·TR["ve-saygideger", "zordur"]·urd["اور-معزز", "مشکل"]
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
† [יַקִּיר] adj. honourable, difficult;— 1. honourable, emph. יַקִּירָא Ezr 4:10. 2. difficult (cf. BH כָּבֵד adj. 1 d), fs. יַקִּירָה Dn 2:11.