אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִםʼĂram Nahărayim
proper name, masculine: Aram
Pronunciation: ar-am' nah-har-ah'-yim · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H763
Meanings
1. 5th son of Shem (Genesis 10:22; Genesis 10:23; 1 Chronicles 1:17)
2. grandson of Nahor (Genesis 22:21)
4. a descendant of Asher (1 Chronicles 7:34)
a. the Aramoeans, people, singular collective (2 Samuel 8:5; 2 Samuel 8:6; 1 Kings 20:20)
b. Aram, less often clearly of land (Numbers 23:7; 2 Samuel 15:8; 2 Chronicles 20:2)
c. often indeterminate, perhaps primarily land but often including people (Judges 2:11; Judges 10:6; 1 Kings 10:29)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 10 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 24:10 Then he loaded ten of Abraham’s camels with all kinds of expensive gifts from his master, and he traveled to distant Aram-naharaim. There he went to the town where Abraham’s brother Nahor had settled.
- Deuteronomy 23:4 These nations did not welcome you with food and water when you came out of Egypt. Instead, they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in distant Aram-naharaim to curse you.
- Judges 3:8 Then the Lord burned with anger against Israel, and he turned them over to King Cushan-rishathaim of Aram-naharaim. And the Israelites served Cushan-rishathaim for eight years.
- 1 Chronicles 19:6 When the people of Ammon realized how seriously they had angered David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent 75,000 pounds of silver to hire chariots and charioteers from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.
- Psalms 60:0
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).