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raca

An Aramaic insult, 'empty-head', that Jesus warns against in the Sermon on the Mount. Translators kept it as a foreign word, so it survives in Gothic, Slavonic and English Bibles.

Weakest linkCertain

The road to English

From Koine Greek to Gothic

From Koine Greek to Old Church Slavonic

From Aramaic to Syriac

30 CEAramaic

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