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The Arameans are frequently mentioned in the Old Testament, and their interactions with the Israelites are significant in biblical history.<br><br><b>Origins and Geography</b><br><br>The Arameans are believed to have emerged around the 12th century BC. They settled in the region known as Aram, which included areas such as Damascus, Hamath, and other city-states. The Bible often refers to this region as "Aram-Naharaim" or "Aram of the Two Rivers," indicating its location between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.<br><br><b>Biblical References</b><br><br>The Arameans are first mentioned in Genesis, where they are linked to the patriarchs of Israel. In <a href="/genesis/10-22.htm">Genesis 10:22</a>, Aram is listed as a descendant of Shem, making the Arameans part of the Semitic lineage. <a href="/genesis/25-20.htm">Genesis 25:20</a> notes that Rebekah, Isaac's wife, was "the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram," highlighting the familial connections between the Israelites and the Arameans.<br><br>In <a href="/deuteronomy/26-5.htm">Deuteronomy 26:5</a>, the Israelites are instructed to recite, "My father was a wandering Aramean," during the offering of the firstfruits, which is traditionally understood to refer to Jacob, emphasizing the ancestral ties to the Arameans.<br><br><b>Interactions with Israel</b><br><br>The Arameans frequently interacted with the Israelites, both as allies and adversaries. During the time of the Judges and the United Monarchy, the Arameans were often in conflict with Israel. Notably, King David subdued the Arameans, as recorded in <a href="/2_samuel/8-5.htm">2 Samuel 8:5-6</a>: "When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand men. Then he placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to David and brought him tribute."<br><br>The relationship between Israel and Aram was complex, involving periods of both war and alliance. For instance, King Ahab of Israel formed an alliance with Ben-Hadad, the king of Aram, to fight against the Assyrians (1 Kings 20).<br><br><b>Prophetic Literature</b><br><br>The prophets frequently mention the Arameans, often in the context of judgment and divine retribution. In <a href="/amos/1-3.htm">Amos 1:3-5</a>, the prophet Amos declares God's judgment against Damascus, the capital of Aram, for their transgressions: "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron."<br><br><b>Cultural and Linguistic Influence</b><br><br>The Arameans significantly influenced the ancient Near East through their language and culture. Aramaic, the language of the Arameans, became the lingua franca of the region and was widely used during the time of Jesus. Portions of the Old Testament, such as parts of Daniel and Ezra, are written in Aramaic.<br><br><b>Conclusion</b><br><br>The Arameans played a crucial role in the history of the ancient Near East and the biblical narrative. Their interactions with Israel, both as kin and as adversaries, are woven throughout the Old Testament, reflecting the complex relationships between neighboring peoples in the biblical world.<a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (<I>a.</I>) Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic.<p>2. (<I>n.</I>) A native of Aram.<a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/5283.htm"><span class="l">5283. Naaman -- a descendant of Benjamin, also an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian) <b>...</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> Naaman. 5284 . a descendant of Benjamin, also an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian) general.<br> Transliteration: Naaman Phonetic Spelling: (nah-am-awn') Short Definition: Naaman. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/5283.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/2870a.htm"><span class="l">2870a. Tabeal -- "good for nothing," an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 2870, 2870a. Tabeal. 2870b . "good for nothing," an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian).<br> Transliteration: Tabeal Short Definition: Tabeel. Word Origin <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2870a.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/2383.htm"><span class="l">2383. Chezyon -- "vision," an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 2382, 2383. Chezyon. 2384 . "vision," an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian). Transliteration:<br> Chezyon Phonetic Spelling: (khez-yone') Short Definition: Hezion. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2383.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/1130.htm"><span class="l">1130. Ben-hadad -- "son of Hadad," the name of several <b>Aramean</b> <b>...</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> "son of Hadad," the name of several <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian) kings. Transliteration:<br> Ben-hadad Phonetic Spelling: (ben-had-ad') Short Definition: Ben-hadad. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/1130.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/7331.htm"><span class="l">7331. Rezon -- an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian) of Solomon's time</span></a><br><b>...</b> 7330, 7331. Rezon. 7332 . an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian) of Solomon's time. Transliteration:<br> Rezon Phonetic Spelling: (rez-one') Short Definition: Rezon. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7331.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/6678.htm"><span class="l">6678. Tsoba -- an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian) kingdom</span></a><br><b>...</b> 6677, 6678. Tsoba or Tsobah. 6679 . an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian) kingdom. Transliteration:<br> Tsoba or Tsobah Phonetic Spelling: (tso-baw') Short Definition: Zobah. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/6678.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/1909.htm"><span class="l">1909. Hadadezer -- "Hadad is help(er)," an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian) king</span></a><br><b>...</b> Hadadezer. 1910 . "Hadad is help(er)," an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian) king. Transliteration:<br> Hadadezer Phonetic Spelling: (had-ad-eh'-zer) Short Definition: Hadadezer. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/1909.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/2880.htm"><span class="l">2880. Tibchath -- an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian) city</span></a><br><b>...</b> 2879, 2880. Tibchath. 2881 . an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian) city. Transliteration: Tibchath<br> Phonetic Spelling: (tib-khath') Short Definition: Tibhath. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2880.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/7780.htm"><span class="l">7780. Shophak -- an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian) general</span></a><br><b>...</b> 7779, 7780. Shophak. 7781 . an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian) general. Transliteration: Shophak<br> Phonetic Spelling: (sho-fawk') Short Definition: Shophach. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7780.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/7731.htm"><span class="l">7731. Shobak -- an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian) general</span></a><br><b>...</b> 7730, 7731. Shobak. 7732 . an <b>Aramean</b> (Syrian) general. Transliteration:<br> Shobak Phonetic Spelling: (sho-bawk') Short Definition: Shobach. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7731.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/barrows/companion_to_the_bible/chapter_xxi_the_poetical_books.htm"><span class="l">The Poetical Books (Including Also Ecclesiastes and Canticles).</span></a> <br><b>...</b> writers. Many of these peculiar words are <b>Aramean</b>; that is, they are words<br> current in the <b>Aramean</b> branch of the Shemitic languages. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxi the poetical books.htm</font><p><a href="/library/kent/the_origin_and_permanent_value_of_the_old_testament/iv_the_place_of_the.htm"><span class="l">The Place of the Old Testament in Divine Revelation</span></a> <br><b>...</b> nations, and especially the highly civilized Babylonians, the Hebrews were fortunate<br> in their immediate inheritances through Arabian or <b>Aramean</b> ancestors. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../the origin and permanent value of the old testament/iv the place of the.htm</font><p><a href="/library/renan/the_life_of_jesus/chapter_iii_education_of_jesus.htm"><span class="l">Education of Jesus.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> His biographers make him quote them according to the translations in the <b>Aramean</b><br> tongue;[3] his principles of exegesis, as far as we can judge of them by those <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../renan/the life of jesus/chapter iii education of jesus.htm</font><p><a href="/library/renan/the_life_of_jesus/chapter_viii_jesus_at_capernaum.htm"><span class="l">Jesus at Capernaum.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> who confers on him the power to judge the world, and to govern it for eternity.[<br> 2] Son of Man, in the Semitic languages, especially in the <b>Aramean</b> dialects, is <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../renan/the life of jesus/chapter viii jesus at capernaum.htm</font><p><a href="/library/barrows/companion_to_the_bible/appendix_the_apocryphal_books_of.htm"><span class="l">Appendix. The Apocryphal Books of the Old Testament.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Though some of them were originally written in Hebrew or <b>Aramean</b>, they<br> have been preserved to us only in Greek or other versions. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../barrows/companion to the bible/appendix the apocryphal books of.htm</font><p><a href="/library/sherman/the_childrens_bible/a_slave_girl_who_helped.htm"><span class="l">A Slave Girl who Helped Her Master</span></a> <br><b>...</b> he had gone from him a short distance, Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of<br> God, thought to himself, "My master has let this Naaman the <b>Aramean</b> go without <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/...//christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/a slave girl who helped.htm</font><p><a href="/library/kent/the_making_of_a_nation/study_v_the_pioneers_influence.htm"><span class="l">The Pioneer's Influence Upon a Nation's Ideals.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> south of Canaan. In the inscriptions of the Assyrian king Sennacherib,<br> Hargaranu is the name of an <b>Aramean</b> tribe. A tribe bearing <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../kent/the making of a nation/study v the pioneers influence.htm</font><p><a href="/library/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/genesis.htm"><span class="l">Genesis</span></a> <br><b>...</b> In Laban, his <b>Aramean</b> kinsman, he met his match, and almost his master, in craft;<br> and the initial fraud of his life was more than once punished in kind. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction to the old testament/genesis.htm</font><p><a href="/library/tidwell/the_bible_period_by_period/chapter_xii_solomons_reign.htm"><span class="l">Solomon's Reign.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> off the Hebrew part of Edom independently: (2) that of Adad, the Midianite, who<br> defiled the authority of Solomon; (3) that of Rezon, the <b>Aramean</b>, who revolted <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../tidwell/the bible period by period/chapter xii solomons reign.htm</font><p><a href="/library/renan/the_life_of_jesus/chapter_vi_john_the_baptistvisit.htm"><span class="l">John the Baptist --visit of Jesus to John, and his Abode in the <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> iv.1; Journ. Asiat., February-March, 1856.]. [Footnote 6: The <b>Aramean</b> word seba,<br> origin of the name of Sabians, is synonymous with [Greek: baptizo].]. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../renan/the life of jesus/chapter vi john the baptistvisit.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/a/aramean.htm"><span class="l"><b>Aramean</b> (17 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> to their language; Aramaic. 2. (n.) A native of Aram. Multi-Version<br> Concordance <b>Aramean</b> (17 Occurrences). Genesis 25:20 And Isaac <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/a/aramean.htm - 12k</font><p><a href="/topical/b/bethu'el.htm"><span class="l">Bethu'el (10 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Genesis 25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of<br> Bethuel the <b>Aramean</b>, of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the <b>Aramean</b>, to be <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/bethu'el.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/d/damascus.htm"><span class="l">Damascus (58 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> mas'-kus: 1. The Name 2. Situation and Natural Features 3. The City Itself 4. Its<br> History (1) The Early Period (to circa 950 BC) (2) The <b>Aramean</b> Kingdom (circa <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/d/damascus.htm - 45k</font><p><a href="/topical/u/uz.htm"><span class="l">Uz (8 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> chiefly geographical and ethnographical, Uz seems to have been the name of a district<br> or nation colonized by or descended from Semites of the <b>Aramean</b> tribe or <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/u/uz.htm - 14k</font><p><a href="/topical/t/talmai.htm"><span class="l">Talmai (6 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. TALMAI. (1) A clan, possibly of <b>Aramean</b> origin,<br> generally reputed to be of gigantic height; resident in Hebron at the time of <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/t/talmai.htm - 9k</font><p><a href="/topical/c/chaldeans.htm"><span class="l">Chaldeans (82 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> home; but as they are closely related to the Arameans, it is possible that their<br> first settlements lay in the neighborhood of the <b>Aramean</b> states bordering on <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/c/chaldeans.htm - 48k</font><p><a href="/topical/c/chaldea.htm"><span class="l">Chaldea (8 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> home; but as they are closely related to the Arameans, it is possible that their<br> first settlements lay in the neighborhood of the <b>Aramean</b> states bordering on <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/c/chaldea.htm - 25k</font><p><a href="/topical/s/syria.htm"><span class="l">Syria (73 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Fauna (10) Minerals (11) Central Position 4. History (1) Canaanitic Semites (2)<br> Sargon of Agade (3) Babylonian Supremacy (4) Hittite and <b>Aramean</b> (5) Hittites <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/s/syria.htm - 60k</font><p><a href="/topical/a/abraham.htm"><span class="l">Abraham (2539 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> race geographically by his birthplace, which is given as 'ur-kasdim (see UR), and<br> by the place of his pre-Canaanitish residence, Haran in the <b>Aramean</b> region. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/a/abraham.htm - 50k</font><p><a href="/topical/z/zobah.htm"><span class="l">Zobah (15 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Lebanon. Zobah was an <b>Aramean</b> kingdom of which we have the first notice<br> in Saul's wars (1 Samuel 14:47). (1) David's First War. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/z/zobah.htm - 15k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/who-Arameans.html">Who were the Arameans? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Syria-Aram-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Syria/Aram in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Ben-Hadad-in-the-Bible.html">Who was Ben-Hadad in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://clyx.com/term/aramean.htm">Aramean: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Aramean (17 Occurrences)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/25-20.htm">Genesis 25:20</a></span><br />And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife. <br /><span class="source">(See JPS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/28-5.htm">Genesis 28:5</a></span><br />And Isaac sent away Jacob. And he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. <br /><span class="source">(See JPS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/31-20.htm">Genesis 31:20</a></span><br />And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. <br /><span class="source">(See JPS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/31-24.htm">Genesis 31:24</a></span><br />And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said unto him, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. <br /><span class="source">(See JPS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/26-5.htm">Deuteronomy 26:5</a></span><br />And thou shalt speak and say before Jehovah thy God, A perishing <span class="boldtext">Aramean</span> was my father, and he went down to Egypt with a few, and sojourned there, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. <br /><span class="source">(DBY JPS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_samuel/8-6.htm">2 Samuel 8:6</a></span><br />Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus; and the Arameans became servants to David, and brought presents. And the LORD gave victory to David whithersoever he went.<br /><span class="source">(Root in JPS NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-6.htm">2 Samuel 10:6</a></span><br />And when the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Arameans of Beth-rehob, and the Arameans of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with a thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.<br /><span class="source">(Root in JPS NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_kings/20-29.htm">1 Kings 20:29</a></span><br />And they encamped one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel slew of the Arameans a hundred thousand footmen in one day.<br /><span class="source">(Root in JPS NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/5-20.htm">2 Kings 5:20</a></span><br />But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: as Jehovah liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him. <br /><span class="source">(See JPS NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/7-10.htm">2 Kings 7:10</a></span><br />So they came and called unto the porters of the city; and they told them, saying. 'We came to the camp of the Arameans, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the asses tied, and the tents as they were.'<br /><span class="source">(Root in JPS NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/7-14.htm">2 Kings 7:14</a></span><br />They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the host of the Arameans, saying: 'Go and see.'<br /><span class="source">(Root in JPS NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/18-26.htm">2 Kings 18:26</a></span><br />Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not with us in the Jews language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall. <br /><span class="source">(See JPS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/24-2.htm">2 Kings 24:2</a></span><br />And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Arameans, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by the hand of His servants the prophets.<br /><span class="source">(Root in JPS NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_chronicles/7-14.htm">1 Chronicles 7:14</a></span><br />The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his wife bore--his concubine the Aramitess bore Machir the father of Gilead;<br /><span class="source">(See NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_chronicles/18-6.htm">1 Chronicles 18:6</a></span><br />Then David put garrisons in Aram Damascus; and the Arameans became servants to David, and brought presents. And the LORD gave victory to David whithersoever he went.<br /><span class="source">(Root in JPS NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_chronicles/24-24.htm">2 Chronicles 24:24</a></span><br />For the army of the Arameans came with a small company of men; and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment upon Joash.<br /><span class="source">(Root in JPS NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/35-11.htm">Jeremiah 35:11</a></span><br />But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, that we said: Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Arameans; so we dwell at Jerusalem.'<br /><span class="source">(Root in JPS NAS NIV)</span><a name="sub" id="sub"></a><div class="vheading2">Subtopics</div><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/a/aramean.htm">Aramean</a></p><a name="rel" id="rel"></a><div class="vheading2">Related Terms</div><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/a/aramean.htm">Aramean (17 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/h/hadade'zer.htm">Hadade'zer (18 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/s/syrians.htm">Syrians (63 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/c/chaldeans.htm">Chaldeans (82 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