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- The Aramaic word Abba, (written Αββα in Greek), appears three ... language for Palestinian Jews was Aramaic, Maurice Casey, An Aramaic ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- The Gemara (also Gemorah) ('גמרא' - from gamar: Hebrew (to complete); Aramaic (to study) is the part of the Talmud that contains ...8 KB (1,227 words) - 06:37, 18 April 2024
- the Greek Old Testament (the Septuagint), Aramaic and Hebrew fragments of ... The book was probably originally written in Aramaic. It appears that ...8 KB (1,317 words) - 15:33, 30 January 2024
- (Kraniou Topos) and Gûlgaltâ in Aramaic. While all of these terms ... Luke's Gospel does not give the local, Aramaic name, Golgotha ...7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:36, 25 November 2023
- ) is the Talmudic Aramaic equivalent for the Hebrew root shanah ( ... Amoraim. The root tanna (תנא) is the Aramaic equivalent for the Hebrew ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 04:25, 27 February 2023
- the Ebionites which seem to have used an Aramaic version of Matthew, as well ... may have originally been written in Aramaic, or the Hebrew, or that ...17 KB (2,705 words) - 18:26, 26 December 2022
- Matthais”). Although Josephus also spoke Aramaic and most probably also Hebrew ... quot; (War I.3), arguably the Western Aramaic language. He then wrote ...15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2024
- Enoch: A New Edition in the Light of the Aramaic Dead Sea Fragments (Vol ... * Martinez, Garcia. Qumran & Apocalyptic Studies on the Aramaic ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- The original texts of Manichaeism were composed in Syriac Aramaic ... the Gospel of Mani, were written in Syriac Aramaic, the eighth being written ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- view that it was originally composed in Aramaic. The gospel is associated ... Matthew, and that it was written in Aramaic Francis E. Gigot [http://www ...26 KB (3,813 words) - 14:10, 30 December 2022
- to the Hebrews, and the lost Gospel of Matthew in Aramaic. Epiphanius of Salamis records in his Panarion: "And they [the Ebionites] receive ...11 KB (1,737 words) - 14:45, 30 December 2022
- have survived, one in Greek, the other in Aramaic; and the Greek work exists ... of the book not found in the Hebrew/Aramaic text. The additions are: ...11 KB (1,817 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- write it. It appears that Greek, not Hebrew or Aramaic, was its original language. The view of most modern scholars is that Mark's Gospel was ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- including Maronites, spoke a dialect of Aramaic. Since at least the fifteenth ... " Other common names derive from Aramaic, or Arabic, forms of biblical ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 16:35, 27 January 2022
- tablet is written in ancient Hebrew with an Aramaic style. This style is dated to around 30-70 C.E., around 700 years after the death of Uzziah. However ...10 KB (1,704 words) - 22:57, 13 November 2022
- or whether it was a translation from an Aramaic text redacted in Jewish ... which was in turn translated from the Aramaic (possibly Hebrew for chapters ...29 KB (4,679 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- Sogdiana. The legend on the reverse is in Aramaic script.]] ... of scripts, all of them derived from the Aramaic alphabet. Like its close ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- involve a similarly-spelled word in Aramaic meaning "rope." ... especially Koine Greek and Hebrew, and Aramaic, among others. ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 03:40, 1 October 2023
- Semiticisms and placement of Hebrew and Aramaic characters within their ... speaking eastern Roman Empire into the Aramaic-speaking Persian Empire ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- Asia. Georgian apparently derives from the Aramaic family, but was strongly ... can be distinguished namely Canaanite and Aramaic, which then gave rise to ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- 7:4, 12:42, and 15:39,44-45 , and defines Aramaic words in 14:36 suggesting ... to a audience that does not understand Aramaic (Bacon, 55). Further, as ...15 KB (2,392 words) - 20:38, 17 May 2023
- Church Fathers may have had access to a Biblical Aramaic paraphrase of the work—most Christians writers of the time did not distinguish between Hebrew ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:32, 13 June 2023
- On the basis of cognates in other Aramaic dialects, Semitists such ... known as Mandaic, and is a member of the Aramaic family of dialects. It is ...22 KB (3,408 words) - 11:01, 9 March 2023
- Phoenician]] (1100 B.C.E. to 300 C.E.), Aramaic (tenth century B.C.E. to ... such as Phoenician, Ugaritic, and Aramaic. In Akkadian, ilu is the ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
- In all probability he spoke both Greek and Aramaic, like almost all of his contemporaries in that area, and was a farmer by trade. St. Jude was ...13 KB (2,095 words) - 08:48, 12 May 2024
- a Greek name. He likely had another Hebrew or Aramaic name but none is recorded for him in the Bible. Andrew and his elder brother Peter were ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- from gamar גמר : Hebrew to complete; Aramaic to study. ... It is written in both Hebrew and a western Aramaic dialect that differs from ...32 KB (4,820 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- The Book of Daniel, written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a book in both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. The book is set during ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- Akdamut (Aramaic: אקדמות) is a liturgical poem extolling the greatness of God, the Torah, and Israel. It is read publicly in the synagogue ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 13:22, 27 January 2023
- Jews who could not easily read the Hebrew and Aramaic of the Tanakh. A historical Jew in Galilee would not have heard Scripture in this form. If the ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- the proto-Canaanite alphabet, Phoenician, Aramaic alphabet and Hebrew alphabet ... it has a position corresponding to the Aramaic letter samekh/semkat ...16 KB (2,297 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- Nazaraean' diaspora. The early Aramaic-speaking Syriac Christians ... was sung in the Suryani (Syriac) and Aramaic languages. They also believed ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 22:35, 11 January 2024
- languages). Mark regularly included Aramaic quotes (translating them ... in some other language (for example, Aramaic), it is highly unlikely ...19 KB (2,974 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
- were spoken in Nisibis, mostly dialects of Aramaic. The Christian community used the Syriac dialect. Various pagan religions, Judaism, and early ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- Shimon bar Yochai, (Aramaic: רבן שמעון בר יוחאי), also known as Simeon son of Yohai, or Rashbi (from Rabbi Shimeon bar Yochai ...16 KB (2,585 words) - 14:13, 27 January 2023
- alphabet, derived from the one used for Aramaic (the official language of ... languages from a Semitic alphabet, the Aramaic alphabet. Gandhāra was ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- Petra as the capital of the Nabataeans, Aramaic-speaking Semites, and the ... most closely describing Petra. But in the Aramaic versions Rekem is the name ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- quot; and is linguistically related to the Aramaic words Elah and Syriac ... Semitic languages, including Hebrew and Aramaic. The corresponding Aramaic ...42 KB (6,212 words) - 23:54, 4 March 2024
- study, and attendant languages (e.g., Hebrew, Aramaic and in some cases Yiddish). Since rabbinical studies typically flow from other yeshiva studies ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 16:07, 7 December 2022
- Of all the books of the New Testament, Ebionites only accepted an ... Hebrews, which is often identified as the Aramaic original of Matthew, written ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 18:00, 12 February 2024
- books of Moses), written primarily in medieval Aramaic and considered to be the most important work of Kabbalah. It contains an esoteric discussion ...26 KB (4,149 words) - 06:08, 13 June 2023
- century, the Assyrian language was marginalized by Aramaic, written in the Aramaean alphabet, but Neo-Assyrian cuneiform remained in use in literary ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- author whose first language was either Hebrew or Aramaic. In place of the Aleph and Tav, the Alpha and Omega were substituted in the Greek text. However ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- quoted in the gospels spoke primarily in Aramaic, but the gospels themselves ... proto-gospel (Ur-Gospel), possibly in Aramaic, underlying the synoptics ...41 KB (5,932 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2024
- specific than the Jew from the suburbs. As Aramaic was the main language of ... Latin name might have been transformed by Aramaic into a form more closely ...31 KB (5,055 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- vocabulary and constructions from Aramaic, both of which are characteristic ... think that the book was written in Aramaic or Phoenician. ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- heavily influenced by Hebrew and Aramaic. ===Background in the Roman Empire=== After the forced Jewish exile from Jerusalem in 70 C.E. and the ...20 KB (2,890 words) - 04:05, 18 August 2023
- Hagigah 2:1. Both available online in Aramaic: [http://www.mechon-mamre ... [http://www.mechon-mamre.org/b/l/l2b02.htm Aramaic]. This translation based ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 09:06, 30 December 2021
- It is possible that the titulus was written in Aramaic, the local vernacular, rather than Hebrew. ==References== *Dilasser, Maurice. The Symbols ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 20:14, 29 March 2024
- names, "el" is found in ancient Aramaic, Arabic, and Ethiopic languages ... pl. ’lm), Hebrew ’ēl (pl. ’ēlîm); Aramaic ’l; Arabic Al; Akkadian ...20 KB (3,357 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- Galilean Jews, and ten of their names are Aramaic, the other four names are ... his brother James, Boanerges by Jesus (an Aramaic name explained in Mark 3:17 ...30 KB (4,741 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- , transliterated "Bartholomaios") comes from the Aramaic bar-Tôlmay (תולמי-בר), meaning son of Tolomai ...11 KB (1,622 words) - 19:13, 22 December 2022
- Gentiles in the holy land at the time of Jesus were Aramaic, Koine Greek, and to a limited extent Hebrew. The original texts of the New Testament books ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 16:33, 11 November 2022
- charms. She was well educated and knew Greek, Aramaic, Egyptian, and Latin. Some sources report that she was also given a Jewish education and may have ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- from the root word, shidikh (“match”). The Aramaic translation is sheket (“silence”) implying tranquility or peacefulness. In Judaism it is ...21 KB (3,273 words) - 16:48, 7 November 2022
- also called the Twin (Didymus)." The Aramaic Tau'ma: The name "Thomas" itself comes from the Aramaic word for twin: T'oma ...21 KB (3,427 words) - 00:53, 23 December 2022
- terms from Greek and/or Latin to Aramaic language.) Aramaic language is believed to have been the native language of Jesus. ...25 KB (3,755 words) - 21:55, 5 October 2020
- two-word toponym in B'reshit (Genesis), are in Aramaic, even these are written in the same Hebrew script. ==Books of the Tanakh== ...11 KB (1,531 words) - 02:04, 27 February 2023
- ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites ... was produced, translations were made into Aramaic, the language of Jews living ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- Jephthah (Heb./Aram. יפתח Yiftach/Yiptha χ ) is a character in the Old Testament who served as one of the judges in Israel for a period of ...11 KB (1,778 words) - 19:50, 15 August 2022
- Nineveh (Akkadian: Ninua; Aramaic: ܢܝܢܘܐ; Hebrew: נינוה, Nīnewē; Arabic: نينوى, Naīnuwa), was the capital of the ancient Neo ...21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
- compared it with French, German, Spanish, and Aramaic translations. He also used the Latin Vulgate, primarily in order to point out passages in which ...12 KB (1,807 words) - 00:39, 8 December 2022
- taught biblical studies (Exegesis, Hebrew and Aramaic) at the University. León was one of the foremost experts in Biblical Studies then and had written ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 08:11, 3 August 2022
- is closely related to Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic. It is spoken throughout ... The Arabic alphabet derives from the Aramaic script (Nabataean), to ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- *extracts from a collection of historical documents in Aramaic, illustrating the fortunes of the community in the reigns of Artaxerxes I, and ...13 KB (2,057 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2023
- Fragments of 12 such Aramaic manuscripts have been discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls. How much is missing can be guessed from the Stichometry ...13 KB (2,033 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- from which it is derived) was borrowed from Aramaic. The word "m-s-g-d" is attested in Aramaic as early as the fifth century B.C.E., and ...42 KB (6,416 words) - 12:31, 7 May 2024
- In their original edition, they translated the Aramaic Haggadot into modern Hebrew. Sefer Ha-Aggadah was first published in 1908-1911 in Odessa, Russia ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 17:38, 27 January 2024
- name Cephas, meaning "rock," in Aramaic. Peter (Petrus) is simply ... with the linguistic skill expected from an Aramaic-speaking fisherman, who ...28 KB (4,305 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- 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 ...44 KB (6,927 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- 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
- 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) - 20:09, 11 September 2021
- 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
- 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
- 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 (5,253 words) - 12:12, 24 January 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
- " and with that meaning has passed through Aramaic and Hebrew into many modern languages; but though the Code does not regard him as necessarily ...42 KB (7,282 words) - 22:21, 7 January 2024
