Explore Targum through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Targum meaning
An Aramaic translation of the Tanakh written or compiled between the Second Temple period and the early Middle Ages.
Using Targum
- The main meaning on this page is: An Aramaic translation of the Tanakh written or compiled between the Second Temple period and the early Middle Ages.
- In the example corpus, targum often appears in combinations such as: targum onkelos, the targum, targum jonathan.
Context around Targum
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Targum
- In this selection, "targum" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, official, torah, babylonian, onkelos, jonathan and yerushalmi stand out and add context to how "targum" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an official targum was in and and to targum jonathan on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "targum" sits close to words such as aar, abdulla and abimbola, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with targum
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Of these Targum Neofiti I is by far the largest. (10 words)
In the same printed versions, a similar fragment targum is correctly labeled as Targum Yerushalmi. (15 words)
An official targum was in fact unnecessary for Ketuvim because its books played no fixed liturgical role. (17 words)
Some statements found in rabbinic literature Radak – R. David Kimkhi – in his commentary on Ezekiel 1:3, based on Targum Yerushalmi posit that Ezekiel was the son of Jeremiah, who was (also) called "Buzi" because he was despised by the Jews. (41 words)
In post-talmudic times, when most Jewish communities had ceased speaking Aramaic, the public reading of Targum along with the Torah and Haftarah was abandoned in most communities, Yemen being a well-known exception. (34 words)
Unfortunately, these manuscripts are all too fragmented to confirm what their purpose were, but they seem to be either the remains of a single complete targum or short variant readings of another targum. (33 words)
Is it done possuk by possuk, or do they read from the Sefer Torah straight until the end of the aliyah and then read the Targum? (26 words)
Example sentences (20)
Like Targum Onkelos on the Torah, Targum Jonathan is an eastern ( Babylonian ) targum with early origins in the west ( Land of Israel ).
A city by this name located in Israel does appear, however, in Targum Onkelos, Targum Yonatan, Mishnah, Babylonian Talmud and several Midrashim.
In the same printed versions, a similar fragment targum is correctly labeled as Targum Yerushalmi.
In the synagogues of talmudic times, Targum Onkelos was read alternately with the Torah, verse by verse, and Targum Jonathan was read alternately with the selection from Nevi'im (i.
Other Targumim on the Torah There are also a variety of western targumim on the Torah, each of which was traditionally called Targum Yerushalmi ("Jerusalem Targum").
Targum Ketuvim The Talmud explicitly states that no official targumim were composed besides these two on Torah and Nevi'im alone, and that there is no official targum to Ketuvim ("The Writings").
This too refers to Targum Onkelos on the public Torah reading and to Targum Jonathan on the haftarot from Nevi'im.
Unfortunately, it was then mistitled as a manuscript of Targum Onkelos until 1949, when Alejandro Díez Macho noticed that it differed significantly from Targum Onkelos.
Unfortunately, these manuscripts are all too fragmented to confirm what their purpose were, but they seem to be either the remains of a single complete targum or short variant readings of another targum.
Is it done possuk by possuk, or do they read from the Sefer Torah straight until the end of the aliyah and then read the Targum?
The Targum Yonasan Ben Uziel explains that the dream of the Royal Butler actually alluded to the redemption of the Jewish people.
An important one of these was mistakenly labeled "Targum Jonathan" in later printed versions (though all medieval authorities refer to it by its correct name).
An official targum was in fact unnecessary for Ketuvim because its books played no fixed liturgical role.
As far as the Book of Jonah is concerned, Targum Jonah offers a good example of this.
In 1541, Elia Levita wrote and published Sefer Meturgeman, explaining all the Aramaic words found in the Targum.
In post-talmudic times, when most Jewish communities had ceased speaking Aramaic, the public reading of Targum along with the Torah and Haftarah was abandoned in most communities, Yemen being a well-known exception.
It is disputed whether, in this context, deuterosis means "Mishnah" or " Targum ": in patristic literature, the word is used in both senses.
Of these Targum Neofiti I is by far the largest.
Other sources on Targum * citation * citation—contains critical editions of all the targumim along with lexical tools and grammatical analysis.
Some statements found in rabbinic literature Radak – R. David Kimkhi – in his commentary on Ezekiel 1:3, based on Targum Yerushalmi posit that Ezekiel was the son of Jeremiah, who was (also) called "Buzi" because he was despised by the Jews.
Common combinations with targum
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- targum onkelos 6×
- the targum 5×
- targum jonathan 4×
- targum yerushalmi 4×
- of targum 3×
- as targum 2×
- official targum 2×
- targum to 2×
- to targum 2×
- targum was 2×