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Definition of Aramean

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 Aramean

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of Aramaean) ¹

2. Adjective. (alternative spelling of Aramaean) ¹

3. Proper noun. (alternative spelling of Aramaean) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aramean

Aralia racemosa Aralia spinosa Aralia stipulata Araliaceae Aram Aram Ilich Khachaturian Aram Kachaturian Aram Khachaturian Aramaean Aramaeans

Aramaic Aramaic script Aramaism Aramaisms Aramanik Aramean (current term) Arameans Aramus Aramus guarauna Aramus pictus

Aramæan Aramæans Aran Aran-Duchenne disease Aran Islands Aran jumper Aranadan Aranea Aranea diademata Araneae

Literary usage of Aramean

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

1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1893)
"5 is taken up in Aramean at iv. 24; whereas you would have expected that ... 18, where the Aramean ends, is so consecutive, and fits on so naturally to Ezr. ..."

2. Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1824)
"Arabia, and Abyssinia, the Aramean languages draw our attention by the renown of their ancient civilization, abundance of guttural sounds, vast store of ..."

3. The Story of the Alphabet by Edward Clodd (1900)
"(a) Aramean, so-called from "Aram," the hilly district of Mesopotamia, became, ... Hence the descendants of the Aramean alphabet occupy a space on the map ..."

4. The Alphabet: An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters by ISAAC. TAYLOR (1883)
"Elsewhere the Phoenician was succeeded by the Aramean, which after serving for several centuries as the commercial alphabet of Asia, became the parent of ..."

5. Pilgrimage in Europe and America, Leading to the Discovery of the Sources of by Giacomo Costantino Beltrami (1828)
"... now vulgarly called Calignano, and which was, and ought still to be, called Carin Jano, which signifies, as it is affirmed, in the Aramean language, ..."

6. The higher criticism and the Bible by William Binnington Boyce (1881)
"I. The theory of one original Gospel in Aramean, or First Syro-Chaldaic, advocated by Lessing first, then by thQ°rJ: Corrodi, Weber, Niemeyer, Thiess, ..."

7. The Prophecies of Isaiah by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1880)
"thy servants in Aramean, for we understand it, and do speak to us in Jewish in the ears of i the wall. 12 .. ..01 ю Hezekiah. ii. ..."

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