Aramaean Definition

arəmēən, erəmēən
noun
A member of a people that lived in ancient Syria (Aram) and Mesopotamia.
Webster's New World

Aramaic.

Webster's New World

Any member of a West Semitic semi-nomadic and pastoralist people who lived in upper Mesopotamia (Biblical Aram) during the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. They spoke Aramaic.

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Synonyms:
adjective
Of the Aramaeans or their language or culture.
Webster's New World
Of, or pertaining to Aramaeans or Aram.
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pronoun

The Aramaic language.

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Other Word Forms of Aramaean

Noun

Singular:
Aramaean
Plural:
aramaeans

Origin of Aramaean

  • From the Latin Aramaeus, from the Ancient Greek Ἀραμαῖος (Aramaios, “pertaining to Aram or Syria”).

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Aramaean Sentence Examples

  • Abraham, it was believed, came from Harran (Carrhae), primarily from Babylonia, and Jacob re-enters from Gilead in the north-east with his Aramaean wives and concubines and their families (Benjamin excepted).

  • These in turn come from the Chaldee or Aramaean form x7t?

  • When the time came for Saul to fulfil his promise, Merab was given to Adriel of Abel-Meholah (perhaps an Aramaean).

  • But how far these, or the indigenous " Jews " are of Hebrew rather than of Aramaean origin is impossible to say.

  • After the Aramaeans had absorbed what remained of the earlier population, they themselves were very powerfully influenced by Graeco-Roman civilization, but as a people they still retained their Aramaean speech.

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Words Starting With

AARARA

Words Ending With

NANEAN

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Aramaean

Words Starting With A and Ending With N

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