Search results for "Aramaic" - New World Encyclopedia
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- " 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
- quot; (Greek) and "Thomas" (The Aramaic: Tau'ma) both mean "Twin" and may be titles rather than names. Some scholars ...20 KB (3,346 words) - 04:31, 24 May 2024
- Because we see this as a word in Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic, and Greek, Alexander believes this gives even more strength to this etymology. ...18 KB (2,679 words) - 23:31, 19 October 2023
- Pasor, a refugee from Germany who taught Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic at Oxford. Pococke attended his classes from 1626-7, learning "the ...17 KB (2,663 words) - 15:59, 21 December 2021
- Bauer's Greek English Lexicon of the NT, in Aramaic (שכרא) it means barley beer, from the Akkadian shikaru. This Gospel contains 28 distinct ...37 KB (5,220 words) - 04:27, 24 May 2024
- divine beings most likely comes from the Targumic Aramaic translation, which uses the phrases "sons of nobles," "Bnei Ravrevaya" ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- Nazarene" for the origin of these Hebrew/Aramaic epithets for Jesus. This conclusion is based in part on the prophecy in Matt. 2:23 that says of ...20 KB (3,259 words) - 16:00, 11 November 2022
- * Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek (Septuagint and other ... * Targum texts in Aramaic. Given the sacred nature of the Hebrew Bible ...67 KB (9,999 words) - 15:03, 30 April 2023
- present with them in the sukkah. Known by the Aramaic word ushpizin, these include: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph, and David. According ...19 KB (2,871 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- parallel tradition to that of the Islamic, among Aramaic and Hebrew language scholars, seen in such works as the Hebrew illustrated bibles of the ninth ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- system was also adapted into the Aramaic script, from which the Hebrew script and also that of Arabic are descended. === Mesoamerica === ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
