Aram
    n 1: the biblical name for ancient Syria

	

	Aram
   the son of Shem (Gen. 10:22); according to Gen. 22:21, a
   grandson of Nahor. In Matt. 1:3, 4, and Luke 3:33, this word is
   the Greek form of Ram, the father of Amminadab (1 Chr. 2:10).
   
     The word means high, or highlands, and as the name of a
   country denotes that elevated region extending from the
   northeast of Palestine to the Euphrates. It corresponded
   generally with the Syria and Mesopotamia of the Greeks and
   Romans. In Gen. 25:20; 31:20, 24; Deut. 26:5, the word "Syrian"
   is properly "Aramean" (R.V., marg.). Damascus became at length
   the capital of the several smaller kingdoms comprehended under
   the designation "Aram" or "Syria."

	

	Aram, highness, magnificence, one that deceives; curse