aramean

noun

«aramean» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In Jewish tradition

Laban, Bethuel and Rebekah's family are called Arameans, since they lived in Aram.

Interpretation. Tradition notes the title and sometimes reads it as hinting at Laban's trickiness, as in "Aramean" sounding like "deceiver."

A person from Aram, an ancient land in what is now Syria. tree →

And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled. (Torah GEN.31.20, JPS 1917) tree →
And Isaac sent away Jacob; and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. (Torah GEN.28.5, JPS 1917) tree →
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean, of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. (Torah GEN.25.20, JPS 1917) tree →

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