City 'marjah'

[distazo]

It seems there is a city 'marjah' near the border of Iran in Afghanistan.

I was just wondering, co?ncidence or an ancient left over of an aramaic past?

[Innoire]

What mean this world> Maryah?
Thx.

[distazo]

Mar-Yah is Aramaic for Jahweh (Hebrew)

[Innoire]

Sure?

[distazo]

Sure?

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Clarification. How do we know that?

Because in the Hebrew OT, at every place (a few exceptions) where we have YHWH, there is at that place, in the ARamaic Targum, Mar-Yah. Mar-Yah is applied _only_ to God, not to somebody else.

The same Mar-Yah occurs 215 in the NT.

[Innoire]

OK. Thx. I understand. Please give me two examples. One from OT and one from NT.

[Aaron S]

Genesis 6:8
[font="Estrangelo (V1.1)"]0yrm Yny9b 0mxr Xk40 Xwnw[/font]
and-Noach found grace in-the-eyes-of [font="Estrangelo (V1.1)"]0yrm[/font]

Matthew 1:22
[font="Estrangelo (V1.1)"]0ybn dyb 0yrm Nm rm0t0d Mdm fmtnd twhd hlk Nyd 0dh[/font]
this yet all was to-fulfill that-which was-spoken from [font="Estrangelo (V1.1)"]0yrm[/font] by-the-hand of-the-prophet