Dictionaries :: Aram

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Aram:

the son of Shem (Gen 10:22); according to Gen 22:21, a grandson of Nahor. In Mat 1:3, 4, and Luk 3:33, this word is the Greek form of Ram, the father of Amminadab (1Ch 2:10).

The word means high, or highlands, and as the name of a country denotes that elevated region extending from the northeast of Palestine to the Euphrates. It corresponded generally with the Syria and Mesopotamia of the Greeks and Romans. In Gen 25:20; 31:20, 24; Deu 26:5, the word "Syrian" is properly "Aramean" (R.V., marg.). Damascus became at length the capital of the several smaller kingdoms comprehended under the designation "Aram" or "Syria."

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Aram:

highness, magnificence, one that deceives; curse

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Aram:

a'-ram ('aram):

(1) A son of Shem (Ge 10:22; 1Ch 1:17). See ARAMEANS; SYRIA.

(2) A grandson of Nahor (Ge 22:21).

(3) A descendant of Asher (1Ch 7:34).

(4) Aram, King James Version: Greek form of Ram (thus the Revised Version (British and American) Mt 13:4; Arni Lu 3:33), grandson of Perez.

Nave's Topical Bible

Aram: Definition Of

The name of various regions, and of several men. The word signifies highlands, and is applied in its compounds to various highland districts of Syria.

Aram: 1. The Region Whence Balaam Came at Balak's Command

Num 23:7

Aram: 2. A Region North of Canaan

1Ch 2:23

Aram: 3. Son of Shem

Gen 10:22, 23; 1Ch 1:17

Aram: 4. Son of Kemuel

Gen 22:21

Aram: 5. Son of Shamer

1Ch 7:34

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Aram:

(high).

(1.) The name by which the Hebrews designated, generally, the country lying to the northeast of Palestine; the great mass of that high table‐land which, rising with sudden abruptness from the Jordan and the very margin of the lake of Gennesaret, stretched at an elevation of no less than 2,000 feet above the level of the sea, to the banks of the Euphrates itself. Throughout the Authorized Version the word is, with only a very few exceptions, rendered, as in the Vulgate and LXX., SYRIA. SEE [SYRIA]. Its earliest occurrence in the book of Genesis is in the form of Aram‐naharaim, i.e. the "highland of or between the two rivers." (Genesis 24:10, Authorized Version "Mesopotamia."). In the later history we meet with a number of small nations or kingdoms forming parts of the general land of Aram; but as Damascus increased in importance it gradually absorbed the smaller powers (1 Kings 20:1) and the name of Aram was at last applied to it alone (Isaiah 7:8 also 1 Kings 11:24-25; 15:19 etc.)

(2.) Another Aram is named in Genesis 22:21 as a son of Kemuel, and descendant of Nahor.

(3.) An Asherite, one of the sons of Shamer (1 Chronicles 7:34).

(4.) Son of Esrom, or Hezron, and the Greek form of the Hebrew RAM (Matthew 1:3-4; Luke 3:33).