Aram
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In the Bible, an ancient country of southwest Asia, roughly coextensive with present-day Syria.
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Ancient country, Middle East, southwestern Asia. It extended eastward from the Anti-Lebanon Mountains to beyond the Euphrates River. It was named for the Aramaeans, who emerged from the Syrian desert to invade Syria and Upper Mesopotamia ( 11th century ) and who built numerous city-kingdoms, including Damascus. It lends its name to the Aramaic language.
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1. The fifth son of Shem; the father (or, see I Chr 1:17, the brother) of Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash – five of the seventy nations listed after the Flood (Gen 10:22-23). Their descendants were the Arameans.
2. The son of Kemuel and grandson of Nahor, Abraham's brother (Gen 22:21). The patriarchs had close family ties with the Arameans: Isaac married a granddaughter of Nahor, sister of Laban the Aramean (Gen 25:20), and Jacob married daughters of the same Laban (Gen 31:50-52). Jacob himself is even called the son of a Syrian (Aramean) (Deut 26:5).
3. One of the four sons of Shemer of the tribe of Asher.
Concordance
ARAM 1:
Gen 10:22-23. I Chr 1:17
ARAM 2:
Gen 22:21
ARAM 3:
I Chr 7:34
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Aram (ā'răm), ancient country and people centered in Damascus in S Syria between the 11th and 8th cent. B.C. The Bible records constant contacts between the Hebrews and Aram. The Aramaeans spoke Aramaic, which is a term that refers to a family of languages, of which Syriac is a part. Numerous passages in the Bible speak of Aramaean tribes living in Mesopotamia.
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Bible
- Aram, son of Shem, according to the "Table of Nations" in Genesis 10
- Aram-Naharaim (Aram of two Rivers), the land in which the city of Haran lay
- Aram (biblical region), an ancient region containing the ancient state of Aram Damascus
- Aram Rehob, an early Aramaean kingdom referred to in Numbers and Judges
- Aram, son of Bethuel's elder brother, Kemuel, grandson of Abraham's elder brother, Nahor
- Paddan Aram, an early Aramean kingdom in Mesopotamia referred to in Genesis
Qur'an
- Iram of the Pillars, also called Aram, a lost city on the Arabian Peninsula
People
- Aram (given name), a popular given name in Armenian, Aramaic and Persian languages
- Aram (son of Harma), the king which Armenia is named after
- Aram I (born 1947) as Bedros Keshishian, Lebanese church leader
- Eugene Aram, English philologist and murderer
- Kamrooz Aram (born 1978), Iranian American artist
- M. Aram (born 1927), Indian educator and peace advocate
History, culture and society
- Aram, the third day of the month in the Armenian calendar
- Aram, Armenian patriarch in the History of Armenia (Moses of Chorene)
- Ārām, quiet, comfort, convenience and rest in Sanskrit, Hindi, Persian and Urdu
- Aram (film), 2002 French action movie
- Aram, fictional character in MeruPuri, written by Matsuri Hino
- Aram Quartet, an Italian musical group winner of the first Italian edition of the X Factor
Modern places
- Aram's New Ground, cricket ground in Montpelier Gardens, Walworth, Surrey, England
- Aram Chaos, an impact crater on the planet Mars
- Buyut Aram, a village in Dhofar Governorate, in southwestern Oman
See also
- Ram (Biblical figure), son of Hezron and ancestor of King David
- Aramaean (disambiguation)
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