Aram in the Bible

Meaning: highness, magnificence, one that deceives; curse

Exact Match

And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].

Verse ConceptsSheepWagesIsrael FleeingOther Wivessyria

Thematic Bible



The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.


But Geshur and Aram took from them Havvoth-jair, with Kenath and its villages, sixty towns in all. All these were the sons (descendants) of Machir, the father of Gilead.


Uz the firstborn and Buz his brother and Kemuel the father of Aram,


The sons of Shemer (Shomer) [his brother]: Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.


Balaam took up his [first] discourse (oracle) and said:

“Balak, the king of Moab, has brought me from Aram (Syria),
from the mountains of the east, [saying,]
‘Come, curse [the descendants of] Jacob for me;
And come, [violently] denounce Israel.’