Aramean
- noun
- /ˌærəˈmiːən/
- A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous.
Examples
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The Arameans, in fear, fled for their lives, leaving behind all the resources of the camp.
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Some bloggers I still enjoy reading for honesty and creativity, mainly Seth's Wandering Aramean and Frequent Miler.
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Background: Miller got hooked on mileage running in 2000 during his first job, and now the IT consultant blogs about all things point-related on Wandering Aramean.
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The Cambridge Companion to the Bible makes the following comment: Esau personifies Edom and Laban represents the Aramean states to Israel's north.
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Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, the Arameans from Kir?" (Amos 9:7).
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Mizpah and Lachish would also be heavily discussed by Finkelstein as evidence of the rise of the Kingdom of Judah during the Aramean conquest of N. Israel and Gath (which would get a page to itself).
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From the apparent account, and according to the current understanding of this event, al-Mahdi's inquisition was directed against former Manichaean Muslims and their ideas, which were popularized through the service of Persians and Persianized Arameans.
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The Arameans established trade routes across Mesopotamia during the 11th century BC.
Synonyms
A person from an ancient people who lived in Aram, in parts of Syria and Iraq
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Aramean comes from the ancient place name Aram, and it shares the same root as Aramaic, the language those people spoke. So an Aramean is a person from Aram or a member of that ancient people.