Aram

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Aram
       n : the biblical name for ancient Syria

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Aram


     the son of Shem (Gen. 10:22); according to Gen. 22:21, a
     grandson of Nahor. In Matt. 1:3, 4, and Luke 3:33, this word is
     the Greek form of Ram, the father of Amminadab (1 Chr. 2:10).
     
       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 Gen. 25:20; 31:20, 24; Deut. 26:5, the word "Syrian"
     is properly "Aramean" (R.V., marg.). Damascus became at length
     the capital of the several smaller kingdoms comprehended under
     the designation "Aram" or "Syria."
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Aram, highness, magnificence, one that deceives; curse