Meanings of aramaeans in English

The Aramæans in particular gave them a great deal of trouble.

A new invasion of Arabian Semites, the Aramaeans, whom he attacked at Mt.

The spoken language of the Aramaeans followed their business correspondence.

Tiglath-pileser first paid attention to Babylonia, and extinguished the resistance of the Aramaeans in Akkad.

Perhaps he reckoned on the support of the Aramæans.

The overthrow of the Amorite chiefs had favoured the expansion of the Aramæans towards the south.

Plundering bands of Aramaeans were menacing the western frontiers and had overrun part of northern Babylonia.

Then having expelled the Aramaeans from Sippar, he hastened southward, attacked Bit Jakin and captured it.

In due course of time the earliest inhabitants had been absorbed by another Semitic tribe, called the Aramaeans.

It was entered more than once by the Aramaeans, who pillaged several cities in the north and the south.

Military aristocracies of Aramaeans, Elamites, and Chaldaeans held sway in various parts of the valley, and struggled for supremacy.

Pushing southward, he subdued the Aramaeans on the eastern banks of the Tigris, and drove the Elamites into the mountains.

The Idumæans had taken advantage of the employment of the Israelite army against the Aramæans to make raids into Judah.

The Aramaeans of the Third Semitic migration were not slow to take advantage of the weakness of Assyria and Babylon.

The Aramaeans were beginning even at that period to press westwards; the Hittites, Phoenicians, and Israelites had common interests against them.

Thus the Aramaeans had a territory of no great width, but 230 miles long between its north-western and its south-eastern extremities.