H8536 H8536
there (Aramaic adverb)
The Aramaic equivalent of Hebrew שָׁם, appearing exclusively in Ezra's account of Persian administrative correspondence about the Jerusalem temple. It functions as a simple locative adverb, pointing to archive locations in Babylon and Ecbatana where royal decrees were stored (Ezra 5:17, 6:1, 12). The phrase מִן־תַּמָּה means 'from there' (6:6). This reflects Imperial Aramaic as the bureaucratic lingua franca of the Persian Empire.
Senses
1. sense 1 — A straightforward deictic adverb marking location, used in the administrative prose of Ezra to reference specific archival sites and treasury locations in the Persian realm. The consistent translation across all languages (Spanish 'allí,' French 'là,' English 'there') confirms its function as an unmarked spatial deictic with no special nuance beyond simple location. 4×
AR["هُناكَ"]·ben["সেখান", "সেখানে"]·DE["[תמה]"]·EN["there"]·FR["là"]·heb["תמה"]·HI["-", "वहाँ"]·ID["di-sana", "sana"]·IT["là"]·jav["ing-Babel", "ing-ngriku"]·KO["거기"]·PT["lá"]·RU["там"]·ES["allí"]·SW["huko"]·TR["orada", "oradan"]·urd["وہاں"]
Related Senses
H8033 1. There (locative adverb) (835×)H7760a 1. put, place, set physically (444×)H8064 1. heavens / sky (329×)H5439 1. around, all around (spatial) (319×)H4057b 1. wilderness, desert region (270×)H3220 1. sea, body of water (269×)H0520a 1. cubit (unit of length) (246×)H0127 1. ground, land (territory) (210×)H3383 1. Jordan River (proper noun) (183×)G1093 1. earth, the world (176×)H5800a 1. forsake, abandon (Qal active) (166×)H8121 1. sun (celestial body) (133×)H7126 1. offer, present sacrificially (122×)H6828 1. north, cardinal direction (120×)H2351 1. outside, exterior space (119×)H5104 1. river, stream (119×)H7341 1. width, breadth (101×)G1563 1. there (95×)H7126 2. draw near, approach (95×)G2281 1. sea, large body of water (91×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† תַּמָּה adv. there (so Egyptian Aramaic (RÉS 361 B 5 [also תנהA 4, so Cilic., Cooke 68. 5, cf. Palm. תנן ib. 121. 3, Syriac ܬܢܳܢ] S-CA 4, J 6); 𝔗 תַּמָּן, Syriac ܬܰܡܳܢ, v. BH שָׁם);—Ezr 5:17; 6:1, 12; מִן־ת׳ thence 6:6.