This Aramaic noun means feast or banquet, appearing in Daniel 5:1 where Belshazzar "made a feast for a thousand of his lords." While in Biblical Hebrew the same root refers to bread, in Aramaic it developed the broader meaning of a festive meal or banquet. The Targum and Syriac use this word in the sense of bread, showing the semantic connection. The context in Daniel is the infamous feast where the handwriting appeared on the wall, making this a pivotal moment in salvation history.