אֲרַמִּיʼĂrammîy
אֲרַמִּי: Aramean (Genesis 25:20; Genesis 28:5; Genesis 31:20; Genesis 31:24; 2 Kings 5:20)
Pronunciation: ar-am-mee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H761
Meanings
הָרַמִּים: error for הָאֲרַמִּים, see אֲרָם (2 Chronicles 22:5)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 25:20 When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
- Genesis 28:5 So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to stay with his uncle Laban, his mother’s brother, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.
- Genesis 31:20 Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, for they set out secretly and never told Laban they were leaving.
- Genesis 31:24 But the previous night God had appeared to Laban the Aramean in a dream and told him, “I’m warning you—leave Jacob alone!”
- Deuteronomy 26:5 “You must then say in the presence of the Lord your God, ‘My ancestor Jacob was a wandering Aramean who went to live as a foreigner in Egypt. His family arrived few in number, but in Egypt they became a large and mighty nation.
- 2 Kings 5:20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said to himself, “My master should not have let this Aramean get away without accepting any of his gifts. As surely as the Lord lives, I will chase after him and get something from him.”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).