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Rhyme posted by akhi Dean
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Dean "Well known verse rhymes in Aramaic!"
Oct-23-2002 at 08:05 AM (GMT3)

Quote:Shlama Akhay,

Certainly the recent archeological discovery is very exciting!

Take a look at this rather well known verse in Romans 4.

Most typical English bibles go something like this:

Romans 4:25 “… who

was delivered up because of our transgressions

and was raised because of our justification.”

Almost rhymes in the English but the GNT uses a redundant “of us” after transgressions and justification.

But the Aramaic seems intentionally crafted by the Apostle Paul:

"...d’hoo

Eesh’te’lim mitol kha’ta’hen

oo’kam mitol dan’zad’ken."

I’ve used apostrophes to separate syllables in the above transliteration. Now I’m no poet but it seems very interesting how about 13 to 14 words in the English and 12 words in the GNT with many more unrhyming syllables in each are unpacked from only 6 Aramaic words (3 in both perfectly equal phrases) and each rhyming Aramaic word (‘our transgressions’ and ‘our justification’) contain exactly 3 syllables each.

-Dean
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