aramean
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
A person from Aram, an ancient land in what is now Syria. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Laban, Bethuel and Rebekah's family are called Arameans, since they lived in Aram. Interpretation: Tradition notes the title and sometimes reads it as hinting at Laban's trickiness, as in "Aramean" sounding like "deceiver."
examples
- And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled. (Torah GEN.31.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Isaac sent away Jacob; and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. (Torah GEN.28.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean, of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. (Torah GEN.25.20, JPS 1917) tree →
note
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In the corpora
- And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled.
- And when the Arameans of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Arameans two and twenty thousand men.
- Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus; and the Arameans became servants to David, and brought presents.
- And David got him a name when he returned from smiting the Arameans in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men.
- So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh unto the battle against the Arameans; and they fled before him.
Trees and pragmatics
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