1 5th son of Shem Genesis 10:22,23; 1 Chronicles 1:17.

2 grandson of Nahor Genesis 22:21.

3 1 Chronicles 2:23.

4 a descendant of Asher 1 Chronicles 7:34. — Elsewhere only of AramÊan people & land (= 1 above), feminine^{2Samuel 8:5} masculine^{2Samuel 10:14}.

a. people, singular collective = the Aramoeans, a leading branch of the Shemitic stock inhabiting Mesopotamia & northern Syria, in many tribes & settlements; 2 Samuel 8:5 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 8:6 + 1 Kings 20:20,21 + 1 Chronicles 19:10,12 + (64 t. Samuel Kings Chronicles) Amos 9:7; Isaiah 7:2,4,5,8; Isaiah 9:11; Isaiah 17:3; Jeremiah 35:11; so Ezekiel 16:57; Ezekiel 27:16, but Co in both אדום עַם אֲרָם Amos 1:5; of particular divisions of Aram, בית רְחוֺב ׳א 2 Samuel 10:6, צוֺבָא ׳א 2 Samuel 10:6,8; Psalm 60:2 (title), דַּמֶּשֶׂק ׳א 2 Samuel 8:5 compare 1 Chronicles 18:5, even נַהֲרַיִם ׳א Psalm 60:2 (title); (note that Assyrian never gives name Aramu to people west of Euphrates, but Chatti instead, with other particular names, COT Genesis 10:22, also Dl^l.c.); on 2 Samuel 8:12,13; 1 Chronicles 18:11 see אֱדוֺם.

b. less often clearly of land, Aram Numbers 23:7; 2 Samuel 15:8 2Chronicles 20:2 (read however here אדום Thes Add and others), ׳שְׂדֵה א Hosea 12:13; also of particular divisions of the territory נַהֲרַיִם ׳א 'Mesopotamia,' i.e. probably land between Euphrates & Chaboras, so Di after Kiep, Genesis 24:10; Deuteronomy 23:5; Judges 3:8 (compare Psalm 60:2 above); compare ׳מַּדַּן א Paddan-Aram Genesis 25:20; Genesis 31:18; Genesis 33:18; Genesis 35:9,26; Genesis 46:15, ׳מַּדֶּ֫נָה א Genesis 28:2,5,6,7 see פדן; דַּמֶּשֶׂק ׳א 2 Samuel 8:6 compare 1 Chronicles 18:6.

c. often indeterminate, especially in ׳מֶלֶךְ א etc., perhaps primarily land but often including people: so Judges 2:11; Judges 10:6 (׳אֱלֹהֵי א) 1 Kings 10:29 2Chronicles 1:17 + (41 t. Kings & Chronicles) Isaiah 7:1. — (compare especially Nö^{Sehenkel BL, ZMG 1871, 113; Hermes see 3, 443 f.} Dl^{Pa 257}.)