Lexical Summary Aram: Syria and its inhabitant, also the names of a son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor, and an Israelite Original Word: אֲרָםTransliteration: Aram Phonetic Spelling: (arawm') Part of Speech: proper name, masculine; feminine; masculine Short Definition: Syria and its inhabitant, also the names of a son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor, and an Israelite Meaning: Aram -- Syria Strong's Concordance Aram, Mesopotamia, Syria, Syrians From the same as 'armown; the highland; Aram or Syria, and its inhabitants; also the name of the son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor, and of an Israelite -- Aram, Mesopotamia, Syria, Syrians. see HEBREW 'armown Brown-Driver-Briggs H758. Aram אֲרָם149 proper name, masculine Aram (Assyrian Aramu, etc., see DlPa 257; Thes and others propose √ ארם = רום but compare Nö as below) — 1 5th son of Shem Genesis 10:22-23, 1 Chronicles 1:17. 2 grandson of Nahor Genesis 22:21. 4 a descendant of Asher 1 Chronicles 7:34. — Elsewhere only of AramÊan people & land (= 1 above), feminine2 Samuel 8:5 masculine10:14. a. people, singular collective = the Aramoeans, a leading branch of the Shemitic stock inhabiting Mesopotamia & northern Syria, in many tribes & settlements; 2 Samuel 8:5 (twice in verse); 8:6 + 1 Kings 20:20-21, + 1 Chronicles 19:10, 12 + (64 t. Samuel Kings Chronicles) Amos 9:7; Isaiah 7:2, 4, 5, 8; 9:11; 17:3; Jeremiah 35:11; so Ezekiel 16:57; 27:16, but Co in both אֲרָם עַם אדום Amos 1:5; of particular divisions of Aram, ׳א רְחוֺב בית 2 Samuel 10:6, ׳א צוֺבָא 10:6, 8; Psalm 60:2 (title), ׳א דַּמֶּשֶׂק 2 Samuel 8:5 compare 1 Chronicles 18:5, even ׳א נַהֲרַיִם Psalm 60:2 (title); (note that Assyrian never gives name Aramu to people west of Euphrates, but Chatti instead, with other particular names, COT Genesis 10:22, also Dll.c.); on 2 Samuel 8:12-13, 1 Chronicles 18:11 see אֱדוֺם. b. less often clearly of land, Aram Numbers 23:7; 2 Samuel 15:8 2 Chronicles 20:2 (read however here אדום Thes Add and others), א ׳שְׂדֵה Hosea 12:13; also of particular divisions of the territory ׳א נַהֲרַיִם 'Mesopotamia,' i.e. probably land between Euphrates & Chaboras, so Di after Kiep, Genesis 24:10; Deuteronomy 23:5; Judges 3:8 (compare Psalm 60:2 above); compare א ׳מַּדַּן Paddan-Aram Genesis 25:20; 31:18; 33:18; 35:9, 26; 46:15, א ׳מַּדֶּ֫נָה 28:2, 5, 6, 7 see פדן; ׳א דַּמֶּשֶׂק 2 Samuel 8:6 compare 1 Chronicles 18:6. c. often indeterminate, especially in א ׳מֶלֶךְ etc., perhaps primarily land but often including people: so Judges 2:11; 10:6 (א ׳אֱלֹהֵי) 1 Kings 10:29 2 Chronicles 1:17 + (41 t. Kings & Chronicles) Isaiah 7:1. — (compare especially NöSehenkel BL, ZMG 1871, 113; Hermes see 3, 443 f. DlPa 257.) |
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