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Et accepit servus decem camelos e camelis domini sui, et perrexit: quia omne bonum domini sui erat in manu ejus: et surrexit, et profectus est in Aram-naharaim, ad civitatem Nachor.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand.
LX. Book II 1909
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Its earliest occurrence in the book of Genesis is in the form of Aram-naharaim, i.e. the "highland of or between the two rivers."
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Aram-naharaim -- Syria of the two rivers, or Mesopotamia beyond the river (Euphrates) (2Sa 10: 16).
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To the chief musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to teach, when he strove with Aram-naharaim, and with Aramzobah, when
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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This answer, too, indicates that Abraham was aware of his wife’s loveliness, but now that he had crossed a number of countries he knew that her beauty exceeded that of all the women in Aram-naharaim, in Aram-nahor, and obviously those in Egypt, which causes him to be so fearful.
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Tell-el-Amarna tablets that Palestine had been invaded by the forces of Aram-naharaim (A.V.,
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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"Mesopotamia") more than once, long before the Exodus, and that at the time they were written the king of Aram-naharaim was still intriguing in Canaan.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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By this name, which signifies the table-land of Aram, i.e. Syriac, the Hebrews designated the tract of country which they otherwise called the Aram-naharaim, "Aram of the two of rivers," the Greek Mesopotamia, (Genesis 24: 10) and "the field
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