targum in English

noun
1
an ancient Aramaic paraphrase or interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, of a type made from about the 1st century ad when Hebrew was declining as a spoken language.
His father told him, "The Targum interprets living soul as a speaking spirit."

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1. Corresponding text of Aramaic Targum

2. One of the principal Targums, the “Targum of Onkelos” on the Pentateuch, is rather literal.

3. The aim of this essay is to analyze the Angelologic world of the Targum Jonathan of Joshua

4. The aim of this essay is to analyze the Angelologic world of the Targum Jonathan of Joshua

5. Targum on Numbers 11:27, in Wetst., “In fine extremitatis dierum Gog et Magog et exercitus eorum Adscendent Hierosolyma et per manus regis Messiæ ipsi cadent et vii

6. He pleads not his services by way of merit; but prays that God would deal Bountifully with him, in a way of grace and mercy: or "render good" unto him, as the Targum

7. These names being plural are thought not to be proper names of men, but Appellatives, descriptive of their places of abode, or of their business: hence the Targum of Onkelos represents them as such that dwelt in camps, in tents, and in islands; and the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem call them merchants, artificers and heads of the people