Search results for "Aramaic" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- " 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
- It is generally agreed that Jesus spoke Aramaic, the common language ... Allen C. Myers (ed.). "Aramaic," The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary ...59 KB (9,594 words) - 02:51, 1 August 2022
- 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 ...21 KB (3,376 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
- purposes, Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic are used. == History == ===Origins=== The exact historical origins of the Samaritans are controversial ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- 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 ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- script) Sanskrit, Prakrit (Brahmi script)Possibly Aramaic ... (in the Kharoshthi script, derived from Aramaic, rather than the more eastern ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- on their faith and the practice of using Syriac/Aramaic. The Kerala Christians of Malabar maintained independence from Rome. The persecution of the Syrian ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- were guided by what became known as an Abba (Aramaic for "Father," from which the term Abbot originates). Within a generation, both solitary ...25 KB (3,878 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
