Lexical Summary hamnika: a chain, necklace Original Word: הַמְנִיךְTransliteration: hamnika Phonetic Spelling: (ham-neek') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a chain, necklace Meaning: a chain, necklace Strong's Concordance chain (Aramaic) but the text is hamuwnek {ham-oo-nayk'}; of foreign origin; a necklace -- chain. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2002. hamnika הַמְנִיכָא Qr (Kt המינכָא, also [Gi] המוניכא, etc.) noun [masculine] chain, necklace (Talmud הַמְנִכָּא DWB 108; Syriac ; loan-word from Greek μανιάκης K§ 64, 4; or < Persian hämy¹n, girdle [diminutive would be hamy¹nak] (whence also Greek μαν., Bev DrDaniel 5:7) AndrM 60* (reading הַמְיָֽנְכָא); see also Behrmix LagGes. Abh. 40; Arm. Stud. 1420; see Krauss5f. (who compares also Talmud מָנְיָיק מוּנְיָיק, necklace, bracelet, LevyNHWB iii. 52 b, 158 b D230)); — of gold, 5:7, 16, 29. |
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