Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(high). (1) Translated Mesopotamia (Gen. 24:10). The high part of Syria to the N. E. of Palestine. Absorbed by Syria, with capital at Damascus (1 Kings 20:1; Isa. 7:8; 1 Kings 11:24). (2) A descendant of Nahor (Gen. 22:21). (3) An Asherite (1 Chron. 7:34). (4) An ancestor of Christ (Matt. 1:4; Luke 3:33).
Concise Bible Dictionary:
This is the name of a large district lying north of Arabia, north-east of Palestine, east of Phenicia, south of the Taurus range, and west of the Tigris. It is generally supposed that the name points to the district as the “Highlands,” though it may be from Aram the son of Shem, as above. The word occurs once untranslated in Numbers 23:7, as “Aram” simply, from whence Balaam was brought, “out of the mountains of the east”; but it is mostly translated Syria or Syrian. Thus we have —
1. ARAM-DAMMESEK (2 Sam. 8:5), translated “Syrians of Damascus,” embracing the highlands of Damascus including the city.
2. ARAM-MAACHAH (1 Chron. 19:6), translated “Syria-maachah,” a district on the east of Argob and Bashan.
3. ARAM-BETH-REHOB (2 Sam. 10:6), translated “Syrians of Beth-rehob” (compare Judg. 18:28), a district in the north, near Dan.
4. ARAM-ZOBAH (2 Sam. 10:6,8), translated “Syrians of Zoba,” a district between Hamath and Damascus, but not definitely recognized.
5. ARAM-NAHARAIM signifying “Aram of two rivers” (Gen. 24:10; Deut. 23:4; Judg. 3:8; 1 Chron. 19:6), translated “Mesopotamia.” The two rivers are the Euphrates and the Tigris. The district would be the highlands from whence the rivers issue to the plain, and the district between the two rivers without extending to the far south.
Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:
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