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2 definitions found From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Aram the son of Shem (Gen. 10:22); according to Gen. 22:21, a grandson of Nahor. In Matt. 1:3, 4, and Luke 3:33, this word is the Greek form of Ram, the father of Amminadab (1 Chr. 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; Deut. 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." From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Aram, highness, magnificence, one that deceives; curse
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