Aram

1 month ago - The area did not develop into a larger empire but consisted of several small states in present-day Syria. Some of the states are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, Aram-Damascus being the most outstanding one, which came to encompass most of Syria. In the Bible, Aram-Damascus is simply commonly ...

During the time of the Judges a ... the biblical writers to refer to the people living in the area shown here, located just north of Israel and centered around the ancient city of Damascus....

Aram (or Syria) in the Bible refers to an area of land northeast of Palestine

May 14, 2020 - Answer Some translations of the ... Syria or Aram are much the same as they were in biblical times, with a central location being its capital, Damascus....

2 Samuel 8:6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went · 2 Samuel 15:8 For your servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying,'If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again ...

August 12, 2025 - " (New International Version) The Hebrew word רמי rammîy is found at 2 Chronicles 22:5, also translated Aramaean or Syrian. The land of Aram-Naharaim ("Aram of the Two Rivers") included Padan-Aram and the city of Haran (or Harran), Haran being mentioned ten times in the Bible.

The first genuine reference to Aram is in a 14th-century BCE text of Amenhotep III and attests to a region located in north-central Syria.

In Genesis 25:20 ; Genesis 31:20 Genesis 31:24 ; Deuteronomy 26:5 , the word "Syrian" is properly "Aramean" (RSV, marg.). Damascus became at length the capital of the several smaller kingdoms comprehended under the designation "Aram" or "Syria."

The Old Testament mentions the Arameans about seventy times. Unfortunately, many Bible translations refer to the Arameans incorrectly as "Syrians." The Arameans were a group of linguistically related Semitic peoples living in what is today Syria and western Iraq.

This page identifies the current consensus around the modern location of this biblical place.

See these maps and note that Aram is located in west of the Euphrates river in the Levant (western and southern Syria) The Arameans base their claim on the story of Abrahams travels in the Bible, which states that Abraham went to Paddan Aram in the region of Harran.

Aram, used alone, basically applies to Syria and is generally so translated. (Jg 10:6; 2Sa 8:6, 12; 15:8; Ho 12:12) It included the region from the Lebanon Mountains across to Mesopotamia and from the Taurus Mountains in the N down to Damascus and beyond in the S.​—See SYRIA.

They are Semites (descendants of Shem, son of Noah) and their language is Semitic and has various dialects. The region extended from the northeast of Israel to the Euphrates River. It is generally identified with the Syria and Mesopotamia of the Greeks and Romans.

In fact, there are surprisingly few English translations which maintain some consistency here (Young’s translation does, as we would expect; as well as the BBE, ECB, ERV, God’s Word™, HCSB, etc.). The Complete Apostles Bible, which is a translation from the Greek, consistently has Syria rather than Aram (which makes sense, as Syria is the Greek word for Aram). In the original Hebrew text and Aramaic text, there is no word which can be transliterated Syria; only Aram. II. The location of Syria:

highness, magnificence, one that deceives; curseSmith's Bible DictionaryAram · 1. The name of three men in the Bible: a son of Shem, Genesis 10:22, a grandson of Nahor, Genesis 22:21, and an ancestor of our Lord, Ruth 4:19 1 Chronicles 2:10 Matthew 1:3 Luke 3:33 2. Nearly synonymous with Syria; ...

The Bible consistently points to Aram in Northern Syria as Abraham’s place of origin. However, in a prequel added during the Babylonian exile, a later biblical author introduces Abram as being born in the famous city of Ur, near Babylon in ...

2 weeks ago - / ARR-əm ...) was an Aramean polity that existed from the late-12th century BCE until 732 BCE, and was centred around the city of Damascus in the Southern Levant. Alongside various tribal lands, it was bounded in its later years by the polities ...

Their appearance together in another ... was subject to Hazael, king of Aram (2 Kgs 13:3, 22; Wood 2000). Aram was the kingdom north of Israel, centered around Damascus in southern Syria....

... The name of a group of kindred tribes scattered over portions of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Arabia. It is not the name of a country or of a politically independent people; for the Aramaic peoples were never all independent at the same period; neither did they form a large independent state.

1:3-43And Judas begat Phares and ... (Ruth 4:1919And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab, (Ruth 4:19); Chron. 2:9-10). 5. Place in the land of Gilead, east of the Jordan, which Jair captured (1 Chron....