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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Aram | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for Aram | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
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Aram the son of Shem (Gen. 10:22); according to Gen. 22:21, a grandson of Nahor. In Matt. 1:3, 4, and Luke 3:33, this word is the Greek form of Ram, the father of Amminadab (1 Chr. 2:10). The word means high, or highlands, and as the name of a country denotes that elevated region extending from the northeast of Palestine to the Euphrates. It corresponded generally with the Syria and Mesopotamia of the Greeks and Romans. In Gen. 25:20; 31:20, 24; Deut. 26:5, the word "Syrian" is properly "Aramean" (R.V., marg.). Damascus became at length the capital of the several smaller kingdoms comprehended under the designation "Aram" or "Syria." | |
| From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
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Aram, highness, magnificence, one that deceives; curse | |
