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Av (Hebrew: אָב, Standard Av Tiberian ʾĀḇ Aramaic אבא Abba; related to Akkadian abu; "father"; plural: Hebrew: אבות Avot or Abot) means "father" in Hebrew. The exact meaning of the element ab (אב) or abi (אבי) in Hebrew personal names (such as Ab-ram, Ab-i-ram, Ah-ab, Jo-ab) is a matter of dispute.
Abba, an originally Aramaic form borrowed into the Greek Old Testament as a name (2Chr 29:1) [standing for the Hebrew Abijah (אביה )], common in Mishnaic Hebrew and still used in Modern Hebrew [33] (written Αββά[ς] in Greek, and ’abbā in Aramaic), is immediately followed by the Greek equivalent (Πατήρ) with no explicit ...
Abba is a form of ab, meaning "father" in many Semitic languages. ... Abbot "Abbie" Hoffman, whose Hebrew name was Abba; Abba Hushi (1898–1969), Israeli politician;
abba from Aramaic ܐܒܐ abba 'father' (AHD) abbé from Aramaic ܐܒܐ abba 'father' (AHD, MW) abbot from Aramaic ܐܒܐ abba 'father' (AHD, MW) abracadabra disputed (OED) + probably Balkan (WNW) + probably from Aramaic אבדא כדברא abhadda kedhabhra 'disappear as this word' (NI)
The word is derived from the Aramaic av meaning "father" or abba, meaning "my father" (it still has this meaning in contemporary Hebrew: אבא and Aramaic: ܐܒܐ) In the Septuagint, it was written as "abbas". [2] At first it was employed as a respectful title for any monk, but it was soon restricted by canon law to certain priestly superiors.
Abba bar Abba (Aramic: אבא בר אבא, or Father of Samuel, Aramic: אבוה דשמואל; Cited in the Jerusalem Talmud as Abba bar Ba, Aramic: אבא בר בא) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia in the 2nd-3rd centuries (first generation of amoraim).
The nearest common ancestor of Aramaic and Hebrew is proto–Northwest Semitic; if you look at the classification in the article Semitic languages, cited to Hetzron (1997) among other sources, you will see that Aramaic and Hebrew belong to two different subfamilies of the Northwest Semitic group and are from that perspective more cousin ...
Elah (Hebrew: אֱלָה, romanized: ʾelāh, pl. Elim or Elohim; Imperial Aramaic: אלהא) is the Aramaic word for God and the absolute singular form of אלהא, ʾilāhā. The origin of the word is from Proto-Semitic * ʔil and is thus cognate to the Hebrew , Arabic , Akkadian , and other Semitic languages ' words for god.