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the Hebrew word Aram

translated in the KJV and elsewhere as the English word Syria

 

In the Septuagint, which is the Greek translation of Old Testament, the Hebrew word Aram is translated into Greek as Surias, which is translated into English as Syria.

F.T. Schumacher (The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Volume 1, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962, page 185) writes of the term Aram:

 

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