Targumic & Western Aramaic · Targum Readers
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE FIRST
Pedagogical transliterationva-amar Adonai le-Avram: izel lakh me-ar'akh ...
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This reader uses the same bounded unit as the Biblical Hebrew narrative reader, but it does not assume word-for-word identity. אִיזֵיל לָךְ renders לֶךְ־לְךָ; לְעַם סַגִּי renders לְגוֹי גָּדוֹל; בְּדִילָךְ makes the mediating sense of בְךָ explicit. The learner first reads Onkelos as Aramaic, then compares it with the Hebrew.
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Pedagogical reading guide
Targumic Aramaic
12:1 speech + command + origins + destination · 12:2 people/blessing/name · 12:3 blessing/cursing + nations through Abram
EXAMPLES
Close translation — ‘Hashem said to Abram: Go for yourself from your land, from your birthplace, and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make you into a great people, bless you, enlarge your name, and you shall be blessed. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse the one who curses you; through you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’
SOURCE REFERENCE
APPROVED STUDY LAYERS
Read an exact Onkelos paragraph alongside its Hebrew source while identifying what is close rendering and what is an interpretive lexical choice.
Targumic Aramaic. The paragraph includes Peal imperatives, first-person promise forms with object suffixes, emphatic nouns, and the relative particle דְּ.
Match אִיזֵיל, אַרְעָךְ, עַם סַגִּי, וַאֲרַבֵּי, and בְּדִילָךְ to their Hebrew source expressions. Identify one place where Onkelos clarifies rather than merely copies.
אִיזֵיל ↔ לֶךְ; אַרְעָךְ ↔ אַרְצְךָ; עַם סַגִּי ↔ גּוֹי גָּדוֹל; וַאֲרַבֵּי ↔ וַאֲגַדְּלָה; בְּדִילָךְ ↔ בְךָ. בְּדִילָךְ explicitly expresses ‘through/on account of you,’ a clarifying lexical choice.
Primary edition: Targum Onkelos, vocalized according to the Yemenite Taj , CC-BY-SA. The written Divine Name is read with the traditional substitute in audio.
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