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The Aramaic word Abba, (written Αββα in Greek), appears three ... language for Palestinian Jews was Aramaic, Maurice Casey, An Aramaic ...

The Gemara (also Gemorah) ('גמרא' - from gamar: Hebrew (to complete); Aramaic (to study) is the part of the Talmud that contains ...

the Greek Old Testament (the Septuagint), Aramaic and Hebrew fragments of ... The book was probably originally written in Aramaic. It appears that ...

(Kraniou Topos) and Gûlgaltâ in Aramaic. While all of these terms ... Luke's Gospel does not give the local, Aramaic name, Golgotha ...

) is the Talmudic Aramaic equivalent for the Hebrew root shanah ( ... Amoraim. The root tanna (תנא) is the Aramaic equivalent for the Hebrew ...

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 ...

Matthais”). Although Josephus also spoke Aramaic and most probably also Hebrew ... quot; (War I.3), arguably the Western Aramaic language. He then wrote ...

Enoch: A New Edition in the Light of the Aramaic Dead Sea Fragments (Vol ... * Martinez, Garcia. Qumran & Apocalyptic Studies on the Aramaic ...

The original texts of Manichaeism were composed in Syriac Aramaic ... the Gospel of Mani, were written in Syriac Aramaic, the eighth being written ...

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 ...

to the Hebrews, and the lost Gospel of Matthew in Aramaic. Epiphanius of Salamis records in his Panarion: "And they [the Ebionites] receive ...

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: ...

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 ...

including Maronites, spoke a dialect of Aramaic. Since at least the fifteenth ... " Other common names derive from Aramaic, or Arabic, forms of biblical ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sogdiana. The legend on the reverse is in Aramaic script.]] ... of scripts, all of them derived from the Aramaic alphabet. Like its close ...

involve a similarly-spelled word in Aramaic meaning "rope." ... especially Koine Greek and Hebrew, and Aramaic, among others. ...

Semiticisms and placement of Hebrew and Aramaic characters within their ... speaking eastern Roman Empire into the Aramaic-speaking Persian Empire ...

Asia. Georgian apparently derives from the Aramaic family, but was strongly ... can be distinguished namely Canaanite and Aramaic, which then gave rise to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

from gamar גמר : Hebrew to complete; Aramaic to study. ... It is written in both Hebrew and a western Aramaic dialect that differs from ...

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 ...

Akdamut (Aramaic: אקדמות) is a liturgical poem extolling the greatness of God, the Torah, and Israel. It is read publicly in the synagogue ...

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 ...

the proto-Canaanite alphabet, Phoenician, Aramaic alphabet and Hebrew alphabet ... it has a position corresponding to the Aramaic letter samekh/semkat ...

Nazaraean' diaspora. The early Aramaic-speaking Syriac Christians ... was sung in the Suryani (Syriac) and Aramaic languages. They also believed ...

languages). Mark regularly included Aramaic quotes (translating them ... in some other language (for example, Aramaic), it is highly unlikely ...

were spoken in Nisibis, mostly dialects of Aramaic. The Christian community used the Syriac dialect. Various pagan religions, Judaism, and early ...

Shimon bar Yochai, (Aramaic: רבן שמעון בר יוחאי), also known as Simeon son of Yohai, or Rashbi (from Rabbi Shimeon bar Yochai ...

alphabet, derived from the one used for Aramaic (the official language of ... languages from a Semitic alphabet, the Aramaic alphabet. Gandhāra was ...

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 ...

quot; and is linguistically related to the Aramaic words Elah and Syriac ... Semitic languages, including Hebrew and Aramaic. The corresponding Aramaic ...

study, and attendant languages (e.g., Hebrew, Aramaic and in some cases Yiddish). Since rabbinical studies typically flow from other yeshiva studies ...

Of all the books of the New Testament, Ebionites only accepted an ... Hebrews, which is often identified as the Aramaic original of Matthew, written ...

books of Moses), written primarily in medieval Aramaic and considered to be the most important work of Kabbalah. It contains an esoteric discussion ...

century, the Assyrian language was marginalized by Aramaic, written in the Aramaean alphabet, but Neo-Assyrian cuneiform remained in use in literary ...

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 ...

quoted in the gospels spoke primarily in Aramaic, but the gospels themselves ... proto-gospel (Ur-Gospel), possibly in Aramaic, underlying the synoptics ...

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 ...

vocabulary and constructions from Aramaic, both of which are characteristic ... think that the book was written in Aramaic or Phoenician. ...

heavily influenced by Hebrew and Aramaic. ===Background in the Roman Empire=== After the forced Jewish exile from Jerusalem in 70 C.E. and the ...

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 ...

It is possible that the titulus was written in Aramaic, the local vernacular, rather than Hebrew. ==References== *Dilasser, Maurice. The Symbols ...

names, "el" is found in ancient Aramaic, Arabic, and Ethiopic languages ... pl. ’lm), Hebrew ’ēl (pl. ’ēlîm); Aramaic ’l; Arabic Al; Akkadian ...

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 ...

, transliterated "Bartholomaios") comes from the Aramaic bar-Tôlmay (תולמי‎‎‎‎‎-בר‎‎), meaning son of Tolomai ...

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 ...

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 ...

from the root word, shidikh (“match”). The Aramaic translation is sheket (“silence”) implying tranquility or peacefulness. In Judaism it is ...

also called the Twin (Didymus)." The Aramaic Tau'ma: The name "Thomas" itself comes from the Aramaic word for twin: T'oma ...

terms from Greek and/or Latin to Aramaic language.) Aramaic language is believed to have been the native language of Jesus. ...

two-word toponym in B'reshit (Genesis), are in Aramaic, even these are written in the same Hebrew script. ==Books of the Tanakh== ...

ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites ... was produced, translations were made into Aramaic, the language of Jews living ...

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 ...

Nineveh (Akkadian: Ninua; Aramaic: ܢܝܢܘܐ; Hebrew: נינוה, Nīnewē; Arabic: نينوى, Naīnuwa), was the capital of the ancient Neo ...

compared it with French, German, Spanish, and Aramaic translations. He also used the Latin Vulgate, primarily in order to point out passages in which ...

taught biblical studies (Exegesis, Hebrew and Aramaic) at the University. León was one of the foremost experts in Biblical Studies then and had written ...

is closely related to Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic. It is spoken throughout ... The Arabic alphabet derives from the Aramaic script (Nabataean), to ...

*extracts from a collection of historical documents in Aramaic, illustrating the fortunes of the community in the reigns of Artaxerxes I, and ...

Fragments of 12 such Aramaic manuscripts have been discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls. How much is missing can be guessed from the Stichometry ...

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 ...

In their original edition, they translated the Aramaic Haggadot into modern Hebrew. Sefer Ha-Aggadah was first published in 1908-1911 in Odessa, Russia ...

name Cephas, meaning "rock," in Aramaic. Peter (Petrus) is simply ... with the linguistic skill expected from an Aramaic-speaking fisherman, who ...

and one bilingual edict written in Greek and Aramaic. [[Image:6thPillarOfAshoka ... a bilingual edict in Greek language and Aramaic. This edict, found in Kandahar ...

much improved by information gleaned from Aramaic (Syrian) and Arabic, two ... Some scholars working with Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew versions regard ...

ossuary was inscribed with the full name, in Aramaic of "Joseph, son of Caiaphas," and a second with simply the family name of "Caiaphas ...

Those who defend the doctrine point out that Aramaic, the language spoken by Christ and his disciples, lacked a specific word for "cousin," ...

of these metals in antiquity. However, Halaba in Aramaic means "white," possibly referring to the deposits of marble and whitish soil abundant ...

In Aramaic culture, the term Nephila specifically referred to the constellation of Orion, and thus Nephilim to Orion's semi-divine descendants ...

' likely being a calque of the older Aramaic term, with the Aramaic term ... ) to translate the Hebrew and Aramaic equivalent Naharaim. An even ...

The term abbot (from the Aramaic word: Abba, meaning "Father") is a clerical title given to the head of a monastery in both Christianity ...

Semitic language, related to Hebrew and Aramaic. However, its grammatical features are similar to those found in classical Arabic and Akkadian. ...

also known as ancient Hebrew, and Samaritan Aramaic are used. Samaritans were despised by the Jews, the story's target audience. Located ...

" 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& ...

Arabic, Kurmanji Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian, Turkishurl ... the Armenian and Türkmen minorities. Aramaic, the lingua franca of the ...

Qumran. Additionally, some scrolls are written in Aramaic and a few in Koine Greek. Important texts include the Isaiah Scroll (discovered in 1947 ...

Iberian capital Mtskheta, near modern Tbilisi. An Aramaic inscription found near Tbilisi indicates that Tiridates also warred with Iberia during his ...

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 ...

published etymological arguments that the Aramaic word for hemp can be read ... effects of the plant medicines [from the Aramaic: "to heal"], this ...

The surname Sira means "the thorn" in Aramaic. The Greek form, Sirach, adds the letter chi, similar to Hakeldamach in Acts 1:19. ...

"The Prophet Balaam in a 6th Century Aramaic Inscription." Biblical Archaeologist, 39 (1976). * McCarter, P. Kyle.#page_scan_tab_contents ...

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. ...

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 ...

quot; (Greek) and "Thomas" (The Aramaic: Tau'ma) both mean "Twin" and may be titles rather than names. Some scholars ...

Because we see this as a word in Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic, and Greek, Alexander believes this gives even more strength to this etymology. ...

Pasor, a refugee from Germany who taught Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic at Oxford. Pococke attended his classes from 1626-7, learning "the ...

divine beings most likely comes from the Targumic Aramaic translation, which uses the phrases "sons of nobles," "Bnei Ravrevaya" ...

Bauer's Greek English Lexicon of the NT, in Aramaic (שכרא) it means barley beer, from the Akkadian shikaru. This Gospel contains 28 distinct ...

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 ...

* Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek (Septuagint and other ... * Targum texts in Aramaic. Given the sacred nature of the Hebrew Bible ...

present with them in the sukkah. Known by the Aramaic word ushpizin, these include: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph, and David. According ...

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 ...

system was also adapted into the Aramaic script, from which the Hebrew script and also that of Arabic are descended. === Mesoamerica === ...

" and with that meaning has passed through Aramaic and Hebrew into many modern languages; but though the Code does not regard him as necessarily ...

It is generally agreed that Jesus spoke Aramaic, the common language ... Allen C. Myers (ed.). "Aramaic," The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary ...

his day. He also translated difficult Hebrew or Aramaic words into the spoken French language of his day, giving latter-day scholars a window into the ...

purposes, Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic are used. == History == ===Origins=== The exact historical origins of the Samaritans are controversial ...

a list of seventy (properly ninety) Hebrew (and Aramaic) words which occur in the Bible only once or very rarely, and which may be explained from traditional ...

script) Sanskrit, Prakrit (Brahmi script)Possibly Aramaic ... (in the Kharoshthi script, derived from Aramaic, rather than the more eastern ...

on their faith and the practice of using Syriac/Aramaic. The Kerala Christians of Malabar maintained independence from Rome. The persecution of the Syrian ...

were guided by what became known as an Abba (Aramaic for "Father," from which the term Abbot originates). Within a generation, both solitary ...

called the Gemara. The Gemara was written in the Aramaic language, having been compiled in Babylon. The Mishnah and Gemara together are called the Talmud ...

|fam3=Aramaic |fam4=Brāhmī |fam5=Gupta script |fam6=Siddham |sisters=Eastern Nagari |children=Gujarati |iso15924=Deva }} Devanāgarī ...

because of the feminine gender of the original Aramaic word "spirit." Coptic Christianity also saw the Holy Spirit as the Mother, while regarding ...

Mary Magdalene is described, both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted disciple of Jesus. She is considered ...

The language of the Masoretic notes is partly Hebrew and partly Aramaic. The Masoretic annotations are found in various forms: (a) In separate ...

quot; YHWH in Phoenician, Aramaic, and Modern Hebrew scripts]] Yahweh (יהוה) (ya•'we) is the primary Hebrew name of God in the Bible ...

; another posits that Iraq comes from the Aramaic language, meaning "the ... the ancient Mesopotamian people, speak Aramaic, and are Christian. ...

The Aramaic counterpart of bethûlah was used of married women. The same holds for other cognate languages, "there is in fact no word for ...

Semitic, it is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. In Umayyad times (661-750 C.E.), increasing conversions to Islam among the local population, together ...

these Indic scripts a distant offshoot of the Aramaic alphabet, although there are differing opinions. ===Brahmic Script=== Brahmic scripts are ...

) and those who spoke Aramaic ( |Acts|1:19 ). Saint Stephen and the other deacons became leaders of the Hellenistic Jewish Christians, while Peter ...

*The Aramaic for "Father, father," that is, an invocation ... *The last words Jesus uttered, in Aramaic, from the Cross ...

on the Torah, written in Medieval Aramaic. Most traditional Kabbalists ... *[http://www.Zohar.com English and Aramaic Zohar Online (searchable ...

c) that in Semitic languages, such as Hebrew and Aramaic, the noun translated "spirit" is grammatically feminine, and also images of God's ...

for God ([[Yahweh|YHWH]]) rendered in Phoenician, Aramaic, and Modern Hebrew scripts. The name is pronounced Jehovah by modern Jehovah's Witnesses.]] ...

Mitanni (also Mittani or Hanigalbat) was a Hurrian kingdom in northern Mesopotamia from c. 1500 B.C.E. At the height of its power, during the ...

Semitic, it is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ===Men and women=== Women are restricted to homemaking or local cottage industries, since ...

is that the name derives from the Aramaic maqqaba, "the hammer," in recognition of his ferocity in battle. It is also possible that ...

Shapur I (Shabur Malka in Aramaic) was a particular friend to the ... Nestorian and Jacobite churches was the Aramaic language, which is also ...

accounts, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Jesus spoke Aramaic and perhaps some Hebrew, while the gospels are written in koine (common) Greek. Dating of ...

the Jewish sage Rabbi Akiva. Bar Kochba, Aramaic for "Son of a Star," was a transparent reference to the messianic prophecy of a mighty ...

* Luxenberg, Christoph. The Syro-Aramaic Reading Of The Koran: a contribution to the decoding of the language of the Qur'an. Berlin: Verlag ...

lending its institutional style to Manichaeism and Aramaic and Egyptian Christianity." Robert A.F. Thurman, [http://www.purifymind.com/BuddhistMonasticism ...

Frankel and Abraham Geiger investigated the Aramaic and Greek translations. Nor was the traditional law neglected. Jacob Levy compiled lexicographical ...

owes its historical blend to the Syriac dialect of Aramaic and Arabic. It is a fusion between Syriac and Arabic, as well as some Turkish and thus in this ...

Semitic, it is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. Classical Arabic is used for prayers and religious rituals, poetry, lectures, speeches, broadcasts ...

| languages = Persian, Azeri, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Armenian, Kurdish, Lori, Balochi, Gilaki, Mazandarani, Arabic, Turkmen | demonym ...

language|Phoenician]] (1100 B.C.E. to 300 C.E.), Aramaic (tenth century B.C.E. to 0) and modern Hebrew scripts]] The noun God is the proper English ...