Allah is the arabic word for God
Allah is the arabic word for God. So I guess Jesus would call God
"elahh" in Aramaic
proof for this is :
The following translation is found at http://bible.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/Heb ... ubmit=Find
Thee KJV Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's Number: 0426
Original Word: hhla
Word Origin: corresponding to (0433)
Transliterated Word: 'elahh (Aramaic)'
Phonetic Spelling: 'el-aw'
Parts of Speech: Noun Masculine
Definitions:
- god, God
- god, heathen deity
- God (of Israel)
Food for thought lease tell the Arab Christian's priests to throw away the Bible in Arabic, and use the English Bible instead [if the Arabic word "Allah" doesn't mean GOD].
In today's Arabic Bible, the word "Allah" is used for both the Old Testament and the New Testament.
Here is an example :
[Genesis 1:1 - English Bible - King James Version]
"In the beginning God created
the Heaven and the Earth . . . "
[Genesis 1:1 - Arabic transliteration]
"Fee al-badi' khalaqa Allahu
as-Samaawaat wa al-Ard .
If you want to argue that Jesus spoke Hebrew here is proof that he spoke Aramaic:
Aramaic Language, Semitic language closely related to Hebrew. Originally the language of the Aramaeans (see Aram), it was used, in many dialectical forms, in Mesopotamia and Syria before 1000BC and later became the lingua franca of the Middle East (see Assyro-Babylonian Language). Aramaic survived the fall of Nineveh (612BC) and Babylon (539BC) and remained the official language of the Persian Empire (539-337BC). Ancient inscriptions in Aramaic have been found over a vast area extending from Egypt to China.
Before the Christian era, Aramaic had become the language of the Jews in Palestine. Jesus preached in Aramaic, and parts of the Old Testament and much of the rabbinical literature were written in that language. Christian Aramaic, usually called Syriac, also developed an extensive literature, especially from the 4th to 7th centuries.
Aramaic began to decline in the 7th century AD. Aramaic survives today in Eastern and Western dialects, mostly as the language of Christians living in a few scattered communities in Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran.
(From Encarta Encyclopedia )
In response to the all knowing Webmaster's quote "Nowhere have I read of Jesus saying the name of Allah. "
I guess you can't read Aramaic or Arabic .