Aram

Gender: Male

Years: -1862 - -1862

Dictionary Text: The son of Shem; according to, a grandson of Nahor. In,, and, this word is the Greek form of Ram, the father of Amminadab. 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;,;, the word “Syrian” is properly “Aramean”. Damascus became at length the capital of the several smaller kingdoms comprehended under the designation “Aram” or “Syria.”

Disambiguation Notes: Aram (son of Kemuel)

Family Members

• Father: Kemuel

Verses

• Genesis 22:21: Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,