Biblical Aramaic

Introduction to Biblical Aramaic Biblical Aramaic is a form of the ancient Aramaic language that appears in a few sections of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), notably in parts of the books of Daniel (2:4–7:28), Ezra (4:8–6:18, 7:12–26), and one verse in Jeremiah (10:11). Aramaic itself was a Semitic language closely related to Hebrew and was the common lingua franca of the Near East from the 7th century BCE through the early centuries CE. Although the vast majority of the Old Testament