A language in the same family as Hebrew, used in Daniel 2: 4-7: 28; Ezra 4: 8-6: 18 and 7: 12-26; and Jeremiah 10: 11; its square script replaced the Old Hebrew script in Hebrew manuscripts before the Christian Era
a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia
the Semitic language which was the vernacular in Palestine in the time of Christ, and which He Himself almost certainly used (Cross, The Oxford Dictionary Of The Christian Church)
(air a MAY ic): The language of the ancient Aramaean people The language, also used in parts of the Bible, survived down through our Lord's time and into the seventh century as a written and a spoken language It was then gradually replaced with Arabic with the Arab conquerors Aramaic developed different dialects, divided into eastern and western Aramaic While on earth, Jesus spoke a western (Palestinian) form of the language *Syriac is a language related to Aramaic
an alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language; many other scripts were subsequently derived from it
One of the languages used by people in Jesus' time, probably the language that Jesus and the disciples would have spoken to each other
(air-a-MAY-ik) An ancient Semitic language related to Hebrew The Gemara was written in Aramaic, as is the well known Kaddish prayer
The language of the Arameans (Syrians), Aramaic was a west-Semitic tongue used in parts of Mesopotamia from about 1000 b c e The official language of the Persian Empire after about 500 b c e , it was spoken by the Jews after the Babylonian exile Parts of the Hebrew Bible were composed in Aramaic, and a Galilean dialect of Aramaic was probably the language spoken by Jesus
Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramæan; specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee
A language closely related to Hebrew, in which about 5% of the Jewish Bible was written
Semitic language related to Hebrew in which some parts of the Old Testament were originally written Thought to be the language Jesus spoke
Semitic language originally spoken by the ancient Aramaeans. The earliest Aramaic texts are inscriptions in an alphabet of Phoenician origin found in the northern Levant dating from 850 to 600 BC. The period 600-200 BC saw a dramatic expansion of Aramaic, leading to the development of a standard form known as Imperial Aramaic. In later centuries, as "Standard Literary Aramaic," it became a linguistic model. Late (or Classical) Aramaic ( AD 200-1200) has an abundant literature, both in Syriac and in Mandaic (see Mandaeanism). With the rise of Islam, Arabic rapidly supplanted Aramaic as a vernacular in South Asia. Modern Aramaic (Neo-Aramaic) comprises West Neo-Aramaic, spoken in three villages northeast of Damascus, Syria, and East Neo-Aramaic, a group of languages spoken in scattered settlements of Jews and Christians in southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, and northwestern Iran, and by modern Mandaeans in the Shatt Al-Arab. Since 1900 persecution has forced most contemporary East Neo-Aramaic-speakers, who number several hundred thousand, into diaspora communities around the world