Ἀράμ
Arphaxad
Thayer's lists 2 entries for ‘Arphaxad’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Every verse where G689 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 2 verses
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
Αραμ (Arám) is a Greek name most often rendered “Arphaxad.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. It clusters heavily in Matthew, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It first appears in Matthew 1:3. For the data behind this summary, explore 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G689 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 2 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Aram 2×
- American Standard Version: Ram 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ram 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Aram 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G689 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G689 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G689 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G689 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Aram or Ram = "high"
- an ancestor of Christ
Word origin
Derived from רם (Râm) (H7410) — Ram.
Of hebrew origin [ H7410 ]; Aram (that is Ram ) an Israelite : - Aram.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G689 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ἀράμ Arám | Noun, Proper, indeclinable | Matthew 1:3 | 1 |
| Ἀρὰμ Aràm | Noun, Proper, indeclinable | Matthew 1:4 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Arphaxad). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Son of Shem, born the year after the Deluge. He died at the age of 438 years (Gen. 11:10-13; 1 Chr. 1:17, 18; Luke 3:36). He dwelt in Mesopotamia, and became, according to the Jewish historian Josephus, the progenitor of the Chaldeans. The tendency is to recognize in the word the name of the country nearest the ancient domain of the Chaldeans. Some regard the word as an Egypticized form of the territorial name of Ur Kasdim, or Ur of the Chaldees.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(stronghold of the Chaldees).
+ The son of Shem and ancestor of Eber. (Genesis 10:22,24; 11:10) + Arphaxad, a king "who reigned over the Medes in Ecbatana," Judith 1:1-4; perhaps the same as Phraortes, who fell in a battle with the Assyrians, 633 B.C.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
a healer; a releaser
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word Αραμ appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11 verses in 3 books.
- 11
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 11
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 10:22 αραμ
- 1 Chronicles 2:9 αραμ
- Isaiah 7:1 αραμ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G689) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 10:22 αραμ The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
- Genesis 10:23 αραμ The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
- Genesis 36:28 αραμ These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
- 1 Chronicles 2:9 αραμ The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
- 1 Chronicles 2:10 αραμ Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
- 1 Chronicles 2:23 αραμ Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages of it, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 7:34 αραμ The sons of Shemer: Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
- Isaiah 7:1 αραμ It happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
- Isaiah 7:2 αραμ It was told the house of David, saying, "Syria is allied with Ephraim." His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
- Isaiah 7:5 αραμ Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,
- Isaiah 7:8 αραμ For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people;
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G689) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
