ARAMAIC NEW TESTAMENT

Every word is a root, and every root is a constellation.

Explore the Peshitta — the Syriac New Testament — through its triliteral Aramaic roots. Hebrew and Arabic cognates, interlinear reader, and a living map of how each root hardened into Greek.

3,329
Root patterns
165,527
Word forms
3,459
Cognates
589
Semantic bridges
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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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Most-cited roots in the corpus

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ܗܘܐ H-W-' be, become 3,802 arrow_forward ܐܡܪ '-M-R say 3,290 arrow_forward ܡܪܝ M-R-Y lord, master 1,969 arrow_forward ܐܠܗ '-L-H God 1,900 arrow_forward ܠܘܗ L-W-H — 1,821 arrow_forward ܥܒܕ E-B-D do, make 1,577 arrow_forward ܟܘܠ K-W-L all, every 1,326 arrow_forward ܘܠܐ W-L-' — 1,300 arrow_forward
THE METHOD

It tastes better in Aramaic.

Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic share a triliteral grammar — three-letter skeletons that flex into nouns, verbs and abstractions. When the Greek New Testament fixed those skeletons into single Greek verbs, it cooled what had been molten.

Each root entry here aims to thaw the original — not to replace your Bible, but to widen it.

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