Example sentences for: aramaic

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

  • In some cases, an accompanying illustration displays the alphabets available; for example, the Alaph [ sic ] Beth Font Kit includes Aramaic (Fourth, Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth century fonts), Assyrian/Babylonian, Coptic, Cuneiform (Ras Shamra and Ugaritic), Hieroglyphics (+850), North Semitic, Phoenician, Sabæan, and Syriac (Estrangelo, Serto, and Eastern scripts).

  • Thus one finds Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek/Latin, and other languages disguised in Greek and Latin letters.

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

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

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


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