How To Use Aramaic In A Sentence
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The Great Persian King Darius I announced that the official language of the western half of the Persian Empire was to be Aramaic.
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Dr. G, in the NT as in the Septuagint, it's regarded to be a calque from Hebrew and Aramaic.
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The philologists claimed that Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Amharic, etc., were ‘Semitic’ languages, even though philologists could never find a parent Semitic language from which they all derived."
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But a related reason has been the focus on the historical particularity of Jesus: Jesus the Aramaic-speaking, Jewish male of the first century.
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You are forgiven, because the liturgy is still being written, and translating from Aramaic to Greek to Roman to Whatever is very error prone (throw in some Farsi and Arabic and Sanscrit, for good measure).
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The text of the canonical writings at this point was written in unpointed Hebrew (and, in a few parts, Aramaic).
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For example, "Hebrew-Aramaic words for bathroom functions in Jewish languages are typically quite euphemistic. mashtin zayn 'urinate', nekovim gedoylim and nekovim ketanim 'big holes and 'little holes', geyn af gedoylim and geyn af ketanim "to defecate' and 'to urinate' are indirect and learned ways to avoid saying kakn or shaysn and pishn.
Foreign terms as convenient euphemisms
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The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, with a sprinkling of Aramaic.
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Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘raca’ an Aramaic term of contempt, is answerable to the Sanhedrin.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
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The rabbi once again mumbled some Hebrew, and some Aramaic, prayers, again explaining precisely nothing to the mourners, and again not eulogizing the deceased.
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They are clearly miniature “houses for the gods,” as witnessed both by their clear architectural form and by the fact that in all West Semitic languages Canaanite, Phoenician, Punic, Aramaic, Hebrew, etc. the word ba¯yit/bêt is translated as both “house” and “temple.”
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Singing in turn in ancient Gaelic and Aramaic, a language spoken by Semitic people throughout the ancient Middle East, as well as her own made-up language, Gerrard provide here one of her most mystical performances to date.
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In fact it seems that the Arabic islām may ultimately derive from the Aramaic nuance of this root “submit”, just as other Aramaic words were borrowed or calqued into Arabic via Islam.
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Mani here assimilates ideas already known from Gnosticism (q.v., subtitle The Sophia Myth) and resembling Christian doctrine, especially when it is borne in mind that "Spirit" is feminine in Hebrew-Aramaic and thus could easily be conceived as a mother of all living.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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A sofa is a word adapted into English from Arabic, by way of Aramaic.
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Many have assumed this, or these, collections to be identical with, or at any rate based upon, the "logia," of which ecclesiastical tradition says, that they were written in Aramaic by
Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
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I want to study the possibilities of finding more fragments of the Aramaic logia or the Q source, in other words, the sayings of Jesus.
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Now qumi could be a feminine singular imperative meaning ‘arise’ in either Hebrew or Aramaic.
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It turns out that the ossuary is from the correct era, archaeologists say, but the Aramaic inscription on its side - "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" - was a relatively recent addition.
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Jesus chose the word Abba, the Aramaic word for “Daddy,” to describe God.
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For a brief introduction and a glossary of Hebrew and Aramaic words, see the first installment. yod zayin
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Sorry, Jesus Christ wasn't based on any real historical figure, he was made up out of whole cloth using the Hebrew-Aramaic scriptures as the guide after the Romans destroyed the Temple of Jerusalem and wiped out its population in 70 C.E., then backdated 40 years to create an instant prophet of Jehovah who had been rejected and therefore had brought the calamity on.
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But surely that alpha beta would have been earned for a course in Greek rather than Latin or Aramaic?
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Nothing, though, should take away from this phenomenal work of outsider art, a neo-avant-garde exercise in bodyshock violence that features an unknown cast and dialogue in Latin and Aramaic.
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The liliths are known particularly from the Aramaic incantation bowls from Sassanian and early Islamic Iraq and Iran (roughly 400 – 800 C.E.).
Lilith.
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The Lord's Prayer for the Greek and the interlineal transliterated Aramaic and Hebrew versions.
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In a few cases there even seem to be traces of the use of the Aramaic paraphrases of the Hebrew text which are known as the ‘targums’.
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The Sorbonne paleographer, Andre Lemaire, authenticated the Aramaic inscription as from the year 63 CE.
Robert Eisenman: The James Ossuary: Is It Authentic? (An Update)
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( "ayin", "yod", "reish") we turn to the Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an appendix containing the biblical Aramaic, based on the Lexicon of Wm. Gesenius,
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Slide 19: Language The language of the Kurds is Kurdish, but was originally Aramaic.
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Shepherd quotes the workmen's broad Edinburgh accents as if ancient Aramaic, finding one worker who touchingly gave up work elsewhere so that he could play his part in the creation of the new parliament.
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The alphabet probably was created soon afterward to translate holy texts, replacing Aramaic and Greek scripts and producing both the hieratic script and the contemporary secular alphabet.
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Since Beth is the second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, I have replaced "beth (letter)" with "B" to more closely approximate an English sentence
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While Kurdish is a superstratum of Neo-Aramaic, Yiddish is a primary contributor to Israeli.
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Because of her haughty deportment, she was given a denigratory name, “huldah,” meaning “weasel” (even the Aramaic translation of her name — karkushta — sounds ugly) (BT Megillah 14b).
Huldah, the Prophet: Midrash and Aggadah.
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So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).
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The word El appears in other northwest Semitic languages such as Phoenician and Aramaic and in Akkadian ilu as an ordinary word for god.
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I came across another source that noted that “abracadabra is derived from an Aramaic phrase (Avarah K’Davarah) meaning, ‘I will create as I speak.’”
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When they heard him speak to them in Aramaic, they became very quiet.
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Neither Hebrew nor Aramaic have a specific word for cousin; relatives who are not brothers or sisters are called simply kinsmen or kinswomen, or, for one's first cousin, "the son or daughter of my uncle or aunt."
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Spoken entirely in Latin and Aramaic, it is contrived, opaque and incomprehensible.
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In traditional Jewish languages such as Yiddish, Judeo-Italian, and Ladino, words of Hebrew-Aramaic origin, with connotations of high culture and refinement, are often used as euphemisms when referring to such taboo subjects as death, certain body parts, and bathroom functions.
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Whenever the Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek original uses a masculine expression to refer to one or more persons that are meant to be understood as being either male or female, gender-specific expressions are to be avoided in the English translation.
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These notes are almost entirely written in Aramaic in a form of shorthand abbreviations.
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You’re right that this is the main source of non-phonemic spellings in Yiddish, though books published in the Soviet Union regularized the spellings of these Hebrew-Aramaic words words.
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