Crossword clues for aramaic
aramaic
- Germany and Thailand have abandoned a theatrical old language
- Language of Maria, excited to be hugged by Bill
- Language in extremely old church converted into American
- Dead Sea Scrolls language
- Language of biblical times
- Language in "The Passion of the Christ"
- Speech in the Bible
- Progenitor of the Hebrew alphabet
- Old Syrian tongue
- Language spoken in "The Passion of the Christ"
- Language of the Apostles
- Language of Christ's day
- Language Jesus spoke
- Language featured in ''The Passion of the Christ''
- Biblical language
- Jesus' tongue
- Language spoken by Jesus
- What Jesus spoke
- Words of Jesus
- Biblical tongue
- Language in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Like the words of Jesus
- Language of the Talmud
- "The Passion of the Christ" language
- Jesus' language
- An ancient group of related Semitic dialects some of which are still spoken in Syria
- Early Semitic language
- Semitic language
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aramaic \Ar`a*ma"ic\, a. [See Aram[ae]an, a.] Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aram[ae]an; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee. -- n. The Aramaic language.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
northern branch of Semitic language group, 1834, from biblical land of Aram, roughly corresponding to modern Syria; probably related to Hebrew and Aramaic rum "to be high," thus originally "highland." Aramaic became the lingua franca of the Assyrian empire and later for centuries was the official language of the Persian kingdom and the daily language of Israel at the time of Christ.
Wiktionary
a. Referring to the Aramaic language, alphabet, culture or poetry. n. A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group including (but not limited to):
Wikipedia
Aramaic refers to the language of the Arameans.
Aramaic may also refer to:
- Aramaic alphabet, adapted from the Phoenician alphabet and became distinctive from it by the 8th century BCE
- Aramaic Democratic Organization (Aramean Democratic Organization), an Aramean political party in Lebanon
- Aramaic history (disambiguation), of the Syriac people, their Christianity and the Aramaic language
- Aramaic Lord's Prayer, a rendition from the Syriac Peshitta version of the New Testament
- Aramaic Matthew, alludes to the "Hebrew Gospel hypothesis", a group of related theories that Matthew the Apostle wrote a gospel in the Hebrew language
- Aramaic Music Festival, the First International Aramaic Music Festival held in Lebanon in 2008 for the Aramean/Syriac people
- Aramaic New Testament, exists in two forms, "classical Aramaic" and "Assyrian Modern"
- Aramaic of Hatra, inscriptions from the site of Hatra that were published in 1912
- Aramaic of Jesus, alludes to a general scholarly agreement that Jesus and his disciples primarily spoke the Aramaic language
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Assyrian people, a distinct ethnic group whose origins lie in ancient Mesopotamia and still speaks Aramaic
- Arameans, a Northwest Semitic semi-nomadic and pastoralist people who originated in what is now modern Syria
- Aramaic Targum, spoken paraphrases, explanations, and expansions of the Jewish scriptures
- Biblical Aramaic, a form of the Aramaic language used in such biblical books as Daniel and Ezra
- Middle Aramaic, spoken from the 3rd century CE into various periods of modern times in different areas
- Neo-Aramaic languages, varieties of Aramaic that have been spoken from medieval times to the modern era
- Old Aramaic, an ancient and extinct version of the Aramaic language
Usage examples of "aramaic".
It was composed in Aramaic two thousand years ago by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.
Among his many writings is a translation of the entire Zohar from Aramaic to modern Hebrew, together with a detailed commentary on the text.
Early and Middle Persian, hieroglyphics and cuneiform and Aramaic, classical and modern Arabic, the usual knowledge of Greek and Hebrew and Latin and the European tongues, Hindi where relevant and all sciences where necessary for his work.
He lifted the cover, read the first line of Aramaic in the first of the four columns on the page, closed his eyes and began to pray.
Another important effect of Iranian rule was the disappearance of the Mesopotamian languages and the widespread use of Aramaic, the official language of the empire.
One of the Semitic languages, it is related to Aramaic, Phoenician, Syriac, Hebrew, various Ethiopic languages, and the Akkadian of ancient Babylonia and Assyria.
Someone had pinned to the bulletin board a short vocabulary list in Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, with the English translation.
But two thousand years ago, the binding language of the Levant had been Aramaic, now considered a dead language.
Well into the second century, synagogues had provided Aramaic translations, or Targums, of Hebrew scripture to the uneducated masses.
He and Izzy had decided that was the safest disguise for him, a mountain yokel on the far edges of Aramaic country.
It was an exorcism, and a very old one, in Aramaic and Latin and corrupt Coptic.
The sheepskin was covered in lines of writing, and upon closer inspection, Rae recognized the script as a form of Aramaic, an ancient language from the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Hal told me the scroll was written in the Aramaic of the time with Greek and Latin words and expressions thrown in.
In fact, Arabic as we understand it is derived from Aramaic, via the cursive script of the Nabateans who, as we have seen, had their capital at Petra, in what is now Jordan.
But the first blow struck in modern times was delivered by Louis Cappel in the early seventeenth century, who showed that the original Old Testament had been written not in Hebrew but in Aramaic, making it a much later work than had previously been supposed.