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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.

Greek

1447. Hebraisti -- in Hebrew, in Aramaic
... Part of Speech: Adverb Transliteration: Hebraisti Phonetic Spelling: (heb-rah-is-
tee') Short Definition: in the Hebrew or Aramaic dialect Definition: in the ...
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1258. dialektos -- speech, language
... speaking. Word Origin from dialegomai Definition speech, language NASB Word
Usage dialect (3), language (3). language, tongue. From ...
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2981. lalia -- talk
... talk. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: lalia Phonetic Spelling:
(lal-ee-ah') Short Definition: speech, talk, dialect Definition: (in classical ...
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5491. cheilos -- a lip, an edge
... cheilos Phonetic Spelling: (khi'-los) Short Definition: a lip, mouth, shore Definition:
a lip, mouth, shore, edge, brink; meton: language, dialect. ...
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5456. phone -- a voice, sound
... Noun, Feminine Transliteration: phone Phonetic Spelling: (fo-nay') Short Definition:
a sound, noise, voice Definition: a sound, noise, voice, language, dialect ...
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Library

The Dialect of the Galileans, Differing from the Jewish.
... A Chorographical Century. Chapters 81-90 Chapter 87 The dialect of the
Galileans, differing from the Jewish. "Surely thou also art ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 87 the dialect of.htm

Stones Rolled Away
... phrases. A great many people, not so much in your country as in ours, talk
in a dialect. The ... speak back. It is a different dialect. ...
/.../stones rolled away and other addresses to young men/i stones rolled away.htm

Education of Jesus.
... who participated in the government, and the towns inhabited by pagans, like
Caesarea.[1] The real mother tongue of Jesus was the Syrian dialect mixed with ...
/.../renan/the life of jesus/chapter iii education of jesus.htm

Notes
... The following hymns are in the Chill-way-uk dialect of the language of the Alkomaylum
nation of Indians, who live along the Fraser River, from Yale to the Coast ...
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From the Talmud and Hebraica
... the sense is, to inquire how, and in what sense, those phrases and manners of speech
were understood, according to the vulgar and common dialect and opinion of ...
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Elucidations.
... I cannot withhold from the student the valuable hints concerning "the dialect of
Edessa" by which Professor Nöldke [3524] corrects the loose ideas of Mommsen ...
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On the Greek Translation of the Old Testament.
... It is said that the Scriptures both of the law and of the prophets were translated
from the dialect of the Hebrews into the Greek language in the reign of ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter xxii on the greek translation.htm

Index ii.
... Akhmîm codex, the, 283 ff.: Akhmimic dialect, 106. ... Deuteronomy, the book, 215. Dialect
of Alexandria, 289 ff.; dialects of the Egyptian versions, 105 ff. ...
/.../an introduction to the old testament in greek additional notes/index ii.htm

Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... The remains of their language show that it was remotely allied to the dialect of
Susa, and contained many Semitic words.*** What is recorded of their religion ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

The New Testament
... people, but the language which the Son of God learned from His blessed mother and
His foster father was Aramaic, and He spoke the Galilean dialect of that ...
/.../pullan/the books of the new testament/chapter i the new testament.htm

Thesaurus

Dialect (6 Occurrences)
... speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic
and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of ...
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Persian (4 Occurrences)
... II. OLD PERSIAN INSCRIPTIONS III. MEDIC DIALECT 1. Ordinary Ayestic 2. Gathic
IV. ZOROASTER 1. His Date, etc. ... III. Medic Dialect. 1 ...
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Laban (52 Occurrences)
... For Laban himself it suffices that he was a Semite, living within the region early
occupied by those who spoke the Sere dialect that we call Aramaic. ...
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Chaldee
... 46; Jeremiah 10:11. It is the Aramaic dialect, as it is sometimes called, as
distinguished from the Hebrew dialect. It was the language ...
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Coptic
... Of these the most important from a literary point of view was the (1) Buchairic,
the dialect of Lower Egypt, often called Coptic paragraph excellence, and also ...
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Targum
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) A translation or paraphrase of some portion of the
Old Testament Scriptures in the Chaldee or Aramaic language or dialect. Int. ...
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Arabic
... But the dialect of the tribe of Koreish, to which Mohammed belonged, is the one
that, naturally, by the circumstance of the Koran's composition and diffusion ...
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Slavonic
... Uncertain also is the exact dialect used for this work; although this dialect was
the basis of the present liturgical language of the Russian church, it has ...
/s/slavonic.htm - 13k

Georgian
... Uncertain also is the exact dialect used for this work; although this dialect was
the basis of the present liturgical language of the Russian church, it has ...
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Gothic
... Uncertain also is the exact dialect used for this work; although this dialect was
the basis of the present liturgical language of the Russian church, it has ...
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Bible Concordance

Dialect (6 Occurrences)

Acts 1:19 And it was known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own dialect Aceldama; that is, field of blood.)
(DBY YLT)

Acts 2:6 But the rumour of this having spread, the multitude came together and were confounded, because each one heard them speaking in his own dialect.
(DBY YLT)

Acts 2:8 and how do we hear them each in our own dialect in which we have been born,
(DBY YLT)

Acts 21:40 And he having given him leave, Paul having stood upon the stairs, did beckon with the hand to the people, and there having been a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew dialect, saying:
(YLT NAS)

Acts 22:2 and they having heard that in the Hebrew dialect he was speaking to them, gave the more silence, and he saith, --
(YLT NAS)

Acts 26:14 and we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute? hard for thee against pricks to kick!
(YLT NAS)

Subtopics

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