Etymology
Origin of Aramean
1825–35; < Latin Aramae ( us ) (< Greek aramaîos of Aram ) + -an
Example Sentences
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Seth Miller, who runs the popular Wandering Aramean blog agrees.
From Forbes • Jan. 19, 2015
From 953-586 B.C. the Golan Heights was both a buffer zone and a contested area for the ancient Kingdom of Israel and the Aramean Kingdom in Damascus.
From Time Magazine Archive
As regards alphabets, the explorer must study the early Phenician and the Hebrew, Samaritan and Moabite, with the later Aramean branch of this alphabet, whence square Hebrew is derived.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 by Various
In Laban, his Aramean kinsman, he met his match, and almost his master, in craft; and the initial fraud of his life was more than once punished in kind.
From Introduction to the Old Testament by McFadyen, John Edgar
This mountain is the Ararat of the Aramean or Semitic nations, and the Tlaloc or Colhuacan of the Mexicans.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von
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