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a.var identifies the region or people situated across the river in Ezra's Aramaic passages.
The attested use identifies a region across the river and, by extension within the same designation, people, officials, tribute, and administration connected with that region. It occurs in addresses, reports, and decrees concerning those located there.
Senses in use
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Regional designation across the river · dominant
The supplied noun-proper tags accompany a repeated geographic designation in official settings. In Ezra 5:3 the APB renders Tattenai as governor of “Beyond the River”; in Ezra 6:8 it renders tribute as coming from the province “beyond the river,” while Ezra 7:25 places the people to be judged “beyond the river.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB variously presents the designation as “across the river,” “Beyond the River,” “region across the river,” and “province beyond the river.” These renderings show the verse-level presentation rather than a separate lexical sense.