Aram or Arameans = "exalted"

1. Aram or Syria the nation

2. the Syrian or Aramean people

   masculine noun

Aram = "exalted"

1. fifth son of Shem

2. a grandson of Nahor

3. a descendant of Asher

Arphaxad = "I shall fail as the breast: he cursed the breast-bottle"

1. third son of Shem

Asshur or Assyria = "a step"

1. the second son of Shem, eponymous ancestor of the Assyrians

2. the people of Assyria

   proper locative noun

3. the nation, Assyria

4. the land, Assyria or Asshur

son, grandson, child, member of a group

1. son, male child

2. grandson

3. children (pl. - male and female)

4. youth, young men (pl.)

5. young (of animals)

6. sons (as characterisation, i.e. sons of injustice [for un- righteous men] or sons of God [for angels]

7. people (of a nation) (pl.)

8. of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (fig.)

9. a member of a guild, order, class

Lud or Lydia = "strife"

1. the 4th listed son of Shem and supposed progenitor of the Lydians

   patrial noun

2. descendants of Lud the son of Shem who settled in northern Africa

Elam = "eternity"

1. a Korhite Levite in the time of David

2. a chief man of the tribe of Benjamin

3. ancestor of a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel

4. a chief of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah

5. another ancestor of another family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel

6. a priest who assisted at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

7. another head of a family of returning exiles

   proper locative noun

8. a province east of Babylon and northeast of the lower Tigris

Shem = "name"

1. the eldest son of Noah and progenitor of the Semitic tribes