Darius the Great or Dārayavahuš in Old Persian was ruler of the Persian Empire (Achaemenid) at its hight in the 5th century B.C.His name is mentioned in varius Aramaic documents like the Petition to Bagoas-a letter from the El…
The Elephantine papyri is a body of texts from 5 B.C. mostly written in Imperial Aramaic from Elephantine-a Jewish fortress on an island in the Upper Nile near Aswan in Persian-ruled Egypt.The name Elephantine is what Greek ca…
"Syriac language" in Syriac is leshana suryaya .In the image below it is written in the Estrangelo script. Syriac was a dialect of Aramaic which first appeared in writting in the 1st century A.D and flourished between…
This is the beginnig of Psalm 102 Jesus Prayer in Syriac. Mar Yeesho Msheeha breh d Alaha rahhem al xattaya Lord Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy on me,a sinner vocabulary Mar-lord Yeesho Msheeha-Jesus Christ…
In the Syriac script a dot is positioned over or under the letter to mark a vowel.If you do not use such a dot sometimes ambiguities arise .Such is the case of the words malka-king and melka-advise.They are written exactly …
The name Martha is thought to come from Hebrew and it means 'mistress'.Here is how it is written in the Aramaic block script (Hebrew) and the Syriac Estrangelo. Martha appears in the New Testament as the sister of Laza…
The Lamsa Bible is an English translation of the Old and New Testament based on the Syriac Aramaic Peshitta. It was translated by George M Lamsa in 1933 who claimed that his translation of the New Testament is more accurate th…
These two phrases both mean God why have you forsaken me?They can be found in Matthew's and Mark's Gospel.This is what Jesus-being on the cross- cryied out to God. Eli,Eli lema sabakhtani? Matthew 27:46 46 About …
In this post I am compiling a short vocabulary list in Aramaic (Classical Syriac) ,kind of like a dictionary. I will be updating the list,so come back later. Here are the first words in alphabetical order.The English translation…
Here are some resources with Aramaic fonts. So download and install the fonts.The simplest way to install the fonts is this: In Windows. zip file Download and unpack the fonts in the Windows/fonts directory. exe file…
During the reign of the Indian king Ashoka the Maurya Empire was vast.It stretched from Afghanistan and Pakistan ,covering almost all the Indian subcontinent and up to Bangladesh. One of his edicts was a bilingual inscription …
Not one language. One important thing you should know about Aramaic is that it was not uniform.It went through many different phases and developed into numerous dialects which were written in various versions of the Aramaic scri…
The Phoenician script was mainly a consonantal script marking only consonants and because of that many ambiguities arised.In a few cases consonant letters were used both for consonants and vowels to help clarify what is being …
By Tim Downling for The Guardian. Its alleged anti-semitism isn't the only problem with Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. There's also the small matter of it being in Aramaic. To help enrich your enjoyment, …
I have started studing Aramaic grammar and this is what I have learned so far.If you have knowledge of Aramaic grammar feel free to comment. Nouns in Aramaic decline according to gender,state and number.They come in two ge…
Days of the week in Targumic Aramaic In the table below are the days of the week in Targumic Aramaic.In other dialects there might be some minor differences in the pronounciation. Day in Targumic Aramaic is yom ( יום )…
Aramaic was written mostly in consonants from right to left just like Phoenician from which it derived .It was originally used for the Aramaic language which was actually a whole group of West Semitic languages. Later two great…
It is generally agreed that Jesus spoke Galilean Aramaic ,what scholars call Jewish Palestinian Aramaic.It is also hypothesized that he also spoke Hebrew and even some Greek and Latin. At the time Aramaic was a major language …
The sun in Syriac Aramaic is šemšā (ܫܡܫܐ) .The root of the word is šm(š).We have many Aramaic names with the šamaš element dating from the Neo-Assyrian,Neo-Babylonian and Achaemanid Empire periods.
The Lord's prayer in Galilean Aramaic,the native language of Jesus Christ himself does not exist as in an original form.There are, though, linguistic reconstructions of it since Galilean Aramaic remains to this day a very sca…
In Biblical Aramaic Son of God (ܐܠܗܐ) was bar 'elaha (ܒܪ ܐܠܗܐ) .The genitive case did not exist and it was formed simply by putting two nouns one after the other.In Syriac Son of God would be bar d alaha . bar el…
