Search results for "Aramaic" - New World Encyclopedia
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- and one bilingual edict written in Greek and Aramaic. [[Image:6thPillarOfAshoka ... a bilingual edict in Greek language and Aramaic. This edict, found in Kandahar ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 22:01, 4 February 2023
- much improved by information gleaned from Aramaic (Syrian) and Arabic, two ... Some scholars working with Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew versions regard ...43 KB (6,830 words) - 17:26, 6 June 2024
- ossuary was inscribed with the full name, in Aramaic of "Joseph, son of Caiaphas," and a second with simply the family name of "Caiaphas ...15 KB (2,468 words) - 18:17, 25 November 2023
- Those who defend the doctrine point out that Aramaic, the language spoken by Christ and his disciples, lacked a specific word for "cousin," ...30 KB (4,633 words) - 15:58, 7 November 2022
- of these metals in antiquity. However, Halaba in Aramaic means "white," possibly referring to the deposits of marble and whitish soil abundant ...14 KB (2,080 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- In Aramaic culture, the term Nephila specifically referred to the constellation of Orion, and thus Nephilim to Orion's semi-divine descendants ...15 KB (2,395 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- ' likely being a calque of the older Aramaic term, with the Aramaic term ... ) to translate the Hebrew and Aramaic equivalent Naharaim. An even ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- The term abbot (from the Aramaic word: Abba, meaning "Father") is a clerical title given to the head of a monastery in both Christianity ...15 KB (2,485 words) - 04:42, 14 June 2023
- Semitic language, related to Hebrew and Aramaic. However, its grammatical features are similar to those found in classical Arabic and Akkadian. ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- also known as ancient Hebrew, and Samaritan Aramaic are used. Samaritans were despised by the Jews, the story's target audience. Located ...15 KB (2,463 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- " The popular claims that it comes from an Aramaic phrase yari malka, meaning "fear of the King [i.e., God]," or from the Hebrew ya& ...15 KB (2,303 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- Arabic, Kurmanji Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian, Turkishurl ... the Armenian and Türkmen minorities. Aramaic, the lingua franca of the ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- Qumran. Additionally, some scrolls are written in Aramaic and a few in Koine Greek. Important texts include the Isaiah Scroll (discovered in 1947 ...33 KB (5,119 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- Iberian capital Mtskheta, near modern Tbilisi. An Aramaic inscription found near Tbilisi indicates that Tiridates also warred with Iberia during his ...29 KB (4,494 words) - 03:48, 1 May 2023
- where the Edicts were written in Greek and Aramaic), and bordered the contemporary ... in Greek, and one in both Greek and Aramaic. Ashoka's edicts refer ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- published etymological arguments that the Aramaic word for hemp can be read ... effects of the plant medicines [from the Aramaic: "to heal"], this ...32 KB (4,699 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- The surname Sira means "the thorn" in Aramaic. The Greek form, Sirach, adds the letter chi, similar to Hakeldamach in Acts 1:19. ...16 KB (2,553 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- "The Prophet Balaam in a 6th Century Aramaic Inscription." Biblical Archaeologist, 39 (1976). * McCarter, P. Kyle.#page_scan_tab_contents ...16 KB (2,754 words) - 04:16, 11 January 2023
- as the language of their country, while Syriac (Aramaic) had no claim to that distinction. In Judah's own house, pure Hebrew seems to have been spoken. ...16 KB (2,573 words) - 08:34, 12 May 2024
- kings of Guti, and even Elam. According to a later Aramaic source, Shamash-shum-ukin claimed that Ashurbanipal was actually his subject, acting only as ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 22:19, 8 November 2021