Bible Location
Meaning: highness · 5 cross references · Modern-day map available
Aram is the broad Syrian and upper-Mesopotamian region north-east of Israel, made up of several Aramean kingdoms and territories. It is important because it links the patriarchal world, Israel's northern neighbours, and the political landscape of the monarchy. First appears in Num 23:7.1
Place meaning
highness
Coordinates
34.85, 39.12
First appears
Num 23:7
AI summary: Aram is one of the Bible's major regional names and covers more than one state or city. In the patriarchal and ancestral traditions it connects Israel's family origins with the wider Aramean world, while in the historical books it becomes the name for powerful northern kingdoms, especially in relation to Damascus and Geshur. Its appearance in Balaam's story and in Hosea's backward glance to Jacob shows that Aram could carry both political and memory-laden significance. The cross references present Aram as a broad northern highland world central to ancestry, diplomacy, conflict, and identity.1
Place meaning
highness
Latitude
34.85
Longitude
39.12
Bible references
5
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.” 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.