arami · Aramean

What it means

arami (אֲרַמִּי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Aramean”.

From Aram, the region of Syria and northern Mesopotamia.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Someone from Aram, in Syria.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Aramean ×8
• Arameans ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Kings×4
• 1 Chronicles×1

• Genesis 25:20

  Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, as his wife.

• Genesis 28:5

  So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

• Genesis 31:20

  And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing.

• Genesis 31:24

  But Elohim came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, “Be careful not to speak with Jacob either good or bad.”

• Deuteronomy 26:5

  And you shall answer and say before YHWH your Elohim, “A wandering Aramean was my father; and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner, with few men, and there he became a great, mighty, and numerous nation.

• 2 Kings 5:20

  Gehazi, the young man of Elisha the man of Elohim, said, “Look, my master has spared this Naaman, the Aramean, by not taking from his hand what he brought. As YHWH lives, I will surely run after him and take something from him.”

• 2 Kings 8:28

  He went with Joram son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth Gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram.

• 2 Kings 8:29

  King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Ahaziah son of Joram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was sick.

• 2 Kings 9:15

  but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Jehu said, “If this is your will, let no survivor get out of the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.”

• 1 Chronicles 7:14

  The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine, the Aramean, bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.

And 1 more times.