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Smiths Bible Dictionary
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Aram (high). 1. The name by which the Hebrews designated, generally, the country lying to the northeast of Palestine; the great mass of that high tableland which, rising with sudden abruptness from the Jordan and the very margin of the Lake of Gennesaret, stretched at an elevation of no less than 2000 feet above the level of the sea, to the banks of the Euphrates itself. Throughout the Authorized Version the word is, with only a very few exceptions, rendered, as in the Vulgate and LXX., SYRIA. Its earliest occurrence in the book of Genesis is in the form of Aram-naharaim, i.e. the "highland of or between the two rivers." Ge 24:10 Authorized Version "Mesopotamia." In the later history we meet with a number of small nations or kingdoms forming parts of the general land of Aram; but as Damascus increased in importance it gradually absorbed the smaller powers, 1Ki 20:1 and the name of Aram was at last applied to it alone. Isa 7:8 also 1Kin 11:24,25; 15:18 etc. 2. Another Aram is named in Ge 22:21 as a son of Kemuel and descendant of Nahor. 3. An Asherite, one of the sons of Shamer. 1Ch 7:34 4. Son of Esrom or Hezron, and the Greek form of the Hebrew RAM. Mt 1:3,4; Lu 3:33 |
Smith, William, Dr "Definition for 'Aram' Smiths Bible Dictionary".
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