abba

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Later on that day she proudly walked up to her grandparents and announced that "abba was the Torah."

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  1. Father. It is used in the New Testament three times (Mark xiv. 36, Rom. viii. 15, Gal. iv. 6), in each instance accompanied by its translation, “Abba, Father,” as an invocation of the Deity, expressing close filial relation. Either through its liturgical use in the Judeo-Christian church or through its employment by the Syriac monks, it has passed into general ecclesiastical language in the modified form of abbat or abbot (which see).
  2. See aba.

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  • His gold-embroidered abba was sogged with the slush None of the masked figures seemed affected by the gas, however. —  035 - Murder Mirage
  • The shoulders of his abba were heavily embroidered with gold braid. —  035 - Murder Mirage
  • I have no idea how but ammi & abba used to get up real early like 3ish, start the fire and warm up water for washing ourselves, by the time I was awakened by abba, ammi was already making parathas and omelette in addition to salan. —  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN
  • Jeremias is credited with establishing the fact that Jesus 'use of the term, "abba," with reference to the divine is authentic to the original historical figure, and that the Aramaic term means not "father" so much as it means something more akin to "daddy." —  Falls Church News-Press Online
  • Later on that day she proudly walked up to her grandparents and announced that "abba was the Torah." —  Random Thoughts- Do They Have Meaning?
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  1. Latin, from Greek ἀββᾶ, from Syriac abbā and abbō = Chaldee abbā = Hebrew ab, father. See abbot.
 

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