Definition of Biblical Aramaic

1. Noun. The form of Aramaic that was spoken in Palestine in the time of the New Testament.

Generic synonyms: Aramaic

Definition of Biblical Aramaic

1. Proper noun. the form of the Aramaic language that is used in the books of Daniel, Ezra and a few other places in the Hebrew Bible. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Biblical Aramaic

Bianchi's valve
Bias
Bibb lettuce
Bibendum
Bible
Bible-worship
Bible Belt
Bible basher
Bible bashers
Bible thumper
Bible thumpers
Bibles
Biblezine
Biblezines
Biblical
Biblical Aramaic (current term)
Biblical Hebrew
Biblical Latin
Bibos
Bibos frontalis
Bibos gaurus
Bichat
Bichat's canal
Bichat's fat-pad
Bichat's fissure
Bichat's foramen
Bichat's fossa
Bichat's ligament
Bichat's membrane
Bichat's protuberance

Literary usage of Biblical Aramaic

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

1. Theological Propædeutic: A General Introduction to the Study of Theology by Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1893)
"THE Biblical Aramaic AND THE RABBINICAL HEBREW. ... is found Ocn. 31 : 47. The dialect used in the Old Testament is called the Biblical Aramaic. ..."

2. Daniel the Prophet: Nine Lectures, Delivered in the Divinity School of the by Edward Bouverie Pusey (1885)
"So then hi later Aramaic a form is used, which is той found in Biblical Aramaic ; und the Biblical Aramaic uses A form, not found in later Aramaic. ..."

3. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix containing the Biblical Aramaic, based on the Thesaurus and Lexicon of Gesenius, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Biblical Aramaic agrees in all essential points with the language used in the numerous ... Biblical Aramaic, as also the language ef the Palmyrene and ..."

5. The Targum of Onkelos to Genesis: A Critical Enquiry Into the Value of the by Henry Barnstein (1896)
"... given of words which are written by B. with S. but are found in the MSS. with H. and vice versa, but it may be i But Biblical Aramaic likewise ry-a Dan. ..."

6. Journal of Theological Studies (1904)
"*47>- Thus the theory that in Biblical Aramaic the Passive formed by internal vowel-change is a mere Hebraism breaks down altogether. ..."

7. The Critical Review of Theological & Philosophical Literature by Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond (1902)
"He holds that even in the biblical Aramaic of Daniel ... second century BC Can Fiebig give us an instance in biblical Aramaic where the patronymic prefix is ..."

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