Peshitta Constellations

Explore the New Testament from its Aramaic roots

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Read the New Testament in its original Aramaic with transliteration and translation. Click any underlined word to discover its triliteral root. Use the ⚙️ settings to choose your preferred translation language and script.

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Every triliteral root connects Aramaic to its sister languages. Search a root and explore its Hebrew and Arabic cognates, then visualize the full Semitic family as an interactive graph. The Root Card shows the semantic field, a key verse, and sister roots — roots sharing 2 of 3 consonants (e.g., SH-L-M ↔ SH-L-KH).

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ܦܐܪ P-A-R — fruit, produce

Semantic field: fruit, yield, result of labor

What gets lost in translation: In Aramaic, ܦܐܪ (par) carries the full arc from seed to consequence — fruit is not just what grows on a tree but the visible manifestation of an invisible process. Greek καρπός retains the metaphorica… Explore this root →

פְּרִי peri

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Peshitta Occurrences

Form	Transliteration	Gloss	References
ܪܒ	rb rb	great/large	Matthew 11:11 Matthew 18:1 Matthew 18:4 Matthew 22:36 Matthew 23:17 Matthew 23:19 Matthew 26:57 Matthew 26:62 Matthew 26:63 Matthew 26:65 Mark 2:26 Mark 5:35 Mark 5:36 Mark 5:38 Mark 9:34 Mark 14:53 Mark 14:60 Mark 14:61 Mark 14:63 Luke 1:15 ... +45
ܪܒܟܘܢ	rbkwn rbkwn		Matthew 9:11 Matthew 17:24 Matthew 23:8
ܪܘܒܐ	rwbʾ rwb'		Matthew 27:24 Acts 12:18
ܘܪܘܒܐ	wrwbʾ wrwb'		Ephesians 4:31

Hebrew Cognates

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Arabic Cognates

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