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Strong's H758 · Hebrew

'Aram

arawm'

from the same as 759; the highland; Aram or Syria, and its inhabitants; also the name of the son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor, and of an Israelite


Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

H758

H758 אֲרָם Aram . 5th son of Shem . grandson of Nahor . a descendant of Asher —Elsewhere only of Aramæan people & land (= 1 supr.) . people, sg. coll. = the Aramæans , a leading branch of the Shemitic stock inhabiting Mesopotamia & northern Syria, in many tribes & settlements . less often clearly of land; also of particular divisions of territory א׳ נַהֲרַיִם ‘ Mesopotamia ,’ i.e. prob. land between Euphrates & Chaboras; cf. פַּדַּן א׳ Paddan-Aram . often indeterminate

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain

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