Aramean
אֲרַמִּיStrong’s H0761arammi (a-ram-mi)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Arammi is the Hebrew word usually translated “aramean” and “arameans”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.”
Meaning
- A woman of Syria living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at 1Ch.7.14; married to Manasseh (H4519)
How it's translated
- the aramean 6
- arameans 3
- an aramean 1
- aramean 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 4
- 2 Kings 4
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 28:5And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
- Genesis 31:20And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
- Genesis 31:24And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
- Deuteronomy 26:5And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
- 2 Kings 5:20But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
- 2 Kings 8:28And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲרַמִּי arammi · Aramean
A woman of Syria living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at 1Ch.7.14; married to Manasseh (H4519); father of: Machir (H4353) § Syrian or Aramean = "exalted" a thing or a person from Syria or Aram
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “aramean” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ARAME'AN, adjective
Pertaining to Aram, a son of Shem, or to the Chaldeans.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.