Example sentences for: aramaic

How can you use “aramaic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Another ancient oddity is a 4th-century BCE Aramaic religious text in Demotic script.

  • There is no law against combining bogus, ad hoc , “foreign” words and the real thing in one breath, just as Keillor's narrator does in his “Altrusian” blessing, juxtaposing what is obviously nonsense next to genuine Latin ( domino ) and Hebrew ( shadrach, meshach, abednego ). Likewise, in ancient Greek magical texts snippets of Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, and Babylonian words and proper names commingle in happy abandon with endless concatenations of gibberish, producing a veritable Babelian babble to challenge the ingenuity of Indo-European and Semitist scholars alike two thousand years later, as they wrangle with these more-than-sesquipedalian creations of Greco-Egyptian magical fantasy.

  • I should have realized that early translations of the Bible from Aramaic and Hebrew into Greek and Latin, then into all the languages of the world, would be at least as vulnerable as modern-day publications.

  • Middle Persian (an Indo-European language) was written in a form of Aramaic (a Semitic language).

  • Mark 15.34 records Christ's reproach from the cross— eloi, eloi, lamma sabachthani ?— using Greek letters to transcribe the original Aramaic.


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