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# aramaic

«aramaic» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **An ancient Semitic language related to Hebrew, once…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

An ancient Semitic language related to Hebrew, once spoken across the Middle East. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aramaic/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Aramaic was the everyday language of many Jews for centuries, and some Jewish texts, such as Targum Onkelos, are in it. Interpretation: Onkelos's Aramaic translation of the Torah is studied as an early commentary that explains hard Hebrew words.

### examples

- Onqelos, who renders it into Aramaic as צָדְיָא וְרוֹקָנְיָא tzadya weroqanya ‘(and the earth was) barren and desolate’ (https://cal.huc.edu/comment.php?coord=5100101021). (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aramaic/#x1)
- Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in Aramaic: 'O king, live for ever! tell thy servants the dream, and we will declare the interpretation.' (Writings DAN.2.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aramaic/#x2)
- And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Aramaic character, and set forth in the Aramaic tongue. (Writings EZR.4.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aramaic/#x3)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «aramaic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aramaic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.