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# aramean

noun

«aramean» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In 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."

### Meaning

A person from Aram, an ancient land in what is now Syria. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aramean/#m1)

### Examples

- And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled. (Torah GEN.31.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aramean/#x1)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aramean/#x2)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aramean/#x3)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «aramean» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aramean/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«aramean» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/aramean.html) on Mova free.