Targum
noun
a translation or paraphrase in Aramaic of a book or division of the Old Testament.
Targums
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pluralof Targum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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These paraphrases are called Targums, because they were versions or translations of the Hebrew text into this language.
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Eleazar Lord
This may be pronounced a remarkably free translation; and the Targums generally evince a similar liberality of sentiment and phraseology.
From Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden
Somewhere in my most desultory reading I have seen it stated that in some of those early Targums was the declaration, that 'God originally created men red, white and black.'
From St. Elmo by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
Similar evidence is furnished by the Mishna and the Gemara, the Targums, and lastly by the Greek version of Aquila,5 which dates from the first half of the 2nd century A.D.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
But to return to the Targums, where the text reads: Let not God speak with us, lest we die, the interpretation of Onkelos runs, Let not the Word from before the Lord speak with us.
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Eleazar Lord
