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Definition of Aramaean

1. Noun. A member of one of a group of Semitic peoples inhabiting Aram and parts of Mesopotamia from the 11th to the 8th century BC.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.

Definition of Aramaean

1. Noun. 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. ¹

2. Adjective. Of, or pertaining to Aramaeans or Aram. ¹

3. Proper noun. the Aramaic language ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aramaean

Araki Araks Aral Sea Arales Aralia elata Aralia hispida Aralia nudicaulis Aralia racemosa Aralia spinosa Aralia stipulata

Araliaceae Aram Aram Ilich Khachaturian Aram Kachaturian Aram Khachaturian Aramaean (current term) Aramaeans Aramaic Aramaic script Aramaism

Aramaisms Aramanik Aramean Arameans Aramus Aramus guarauna Aramus pictus Aramæan Aramæans Aran

Literary usage of Aramaean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind by James Cowles Prichard (1844)
"Of the Aramaean or Northern Department of the Syro-Arabian Family of Nations. Of the whole region immemorially allotted to the family of nations above ..."

2. Aram and Israel by Emil Gottlieb Heinrich Kraeling (1918)
"Already at the beginning of the Indo-European movement, the Aramaean won ... The Aramaean invasion of Syria, then, synchronizes with the entrance'of the ..."

3. The Ancient Hebrew Tradition as Illustrated by the Monuments: A Protest by Fritz Hommel (1897)
"5 simply as the Aramaean), though it is true that the interval between Abraham and his grandson Jacob is a good deal shorter than that which separates Jacob ..."

4. The Biblical Repository and Classical Review. by American Biblical Repository (1833)
"Aramaean Language iu Palestine. Translated bv the Editor. PROF. 11. PLANCK. Nature and Character of the Greek Style of the New Testament. ..."

5. A History of Babylonia and Assyria by Robert William Rogers (1915)
"Such success was likely to lead soon to an attack upon the larger and richer Aramaean settlements farther west. The states with which he would have to deal ..."

6. Bible and Spade: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the by John Punnett Peters (1922)
"At the same time appear Aramaean tribes and peoples, pushed out of their abode to the north and northeast. These press into Syria and Palestine and also ..."

7. Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology by Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England), Walter L. Nash (1877)
"ON AN Aramaean SEAL. Br LIEUT.-COL. WF PRIDEAUX, FRGS, Fellow of the University of Bombay. Read 5th December, 1876. A SEAL engraved with ancient Phoenician ..."

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