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Ram

ἈράμStrong’s G0689

Aram

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Aram is the Greek word usually translated “ram”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;”
Matthew 1:3 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “ram”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • ram 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Matthew 2

1 book in all.

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Greek dictionary

Ἀράμ Aram · Ram

Ἀράμ indec. (Heb. רָם), Aram: Mat.1:3-4, Luk.3:33 (R, txt., WH, Ἀρνεί).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “ram” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

RAM, noun

[See the Verb.]

  1. The male of the sheep or ovine genus; in some parts of England called a tup.
  2. In astronomy, Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters on the 21st of March, or a constellation of fixed stars in the figure of a ram It is considered the first of the twelve signs.
  3. An engine of war, used formerly for battering and demolishing the walls of cities; called a battering-ram. [See Battering-ram.]
All definitions and other forms of “ram”

    RAM, verb transitive

    [Latin ramus, a branch that is a shoot or thrust. Heb. See Cram.]

    1. To thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive down or together; as, to ram down a cartridge; to ram piles into the earth.
    2. To drive, as with a battering ram
    3. To stuff; to cram.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.