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# אֲרַמִּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H761

**Aramæan** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Aramæan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/761/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲרַמִּי: adj.gent. Aramæan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/761/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. Aramæan, c. art. הָא׳ Gn 25:20(×2); 28:5; 31:20, 24 2 K 5:20; of Israel א׳ אֹבֵד Dt 26:5; pl. אֲרַמִּים 2 K 8:28, 29 (‖ אֲרָם) 9:15 (‖ id.); הָרַמִּים (= הָא׳) 2 Ch 22:5 (‖ id.); פִּילַגְשׁוֹ הָאֲרַמִּיָּה 1 Ch 7:14 his Aramæan concubine.—(ארומים Kt 2 K 16:6 read rather Qr אֲדוֹמִים.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Aramean (7); \[the\] Arameans (3); Arameans (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 7:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.14/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י מְנַשֶּׁ֔ה אַשְׂרִיאֵ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר יָלָ֑דָה פִּֽילַגְשׁוֹ֙ הָֽאֲרַמִּיָּ֔ה יָלְדָ֕ה אֶת־מָכִ֖יר אֲבִ֥י גִלְעָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Manasseh \[were\].Asriel whom she.bore concubine his (the) Aramean she.bore (et) Makir the.father of.Gilead

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his wife bore — his concubine the Aramitess bore Machir the father of Gilead;

[Genesis 31:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.20/#tree)

וַיִּגְנֹ֣ב יַעֲקֹ֔ב אֶת־לֵ֥ב לָבָ֖ן הָאֲרַמִּ֑י עַל־בְּלִי֙ הִגִּ֣יד ל֔וֹ כִּ֥י בֹרֵ֖חַ הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* and he.stole Jacob (et) the.heart of.Laban the Aramean on not he.told to him (dm).that \[was\].about.to.flee he

*JPS 1917:* And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/761.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/761/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).