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# aramean

«aramean» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A person from Aram, an ancient land in what is now Syria** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and 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."

### examples

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

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.956/)
- [And when the Arameans of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Arameans two and twenty thousand men.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.213/)
- [Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus; and the Arameans became servants to David, and brought presents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.214/)
- [And David got him a name when he returned from smiting the Arameans in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.222/)
- [So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh unto the battle against the Arameans; and they fled before him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.258/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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