Targum

 [tahr-goom; Seph. Heb. tahr-goom; Ashk. Heb. tahr-goom]  

Tar·gum

   [tahr-goom; Seph. Heb. tahr-goom; Ashk. Heb. tahr-goom]
noun, plural Tar·gums, Hebrew Tar·gu·mim  [Seph. tahr-goo-meem; Ashk. tahr-goo-mim] .
a translation or paraphrase in Aramaic of a book or division of the Old Testament.
Origin:
< Aramaic targūm literally, paraphrase, interpretation

Related forms
Tar·gum·ic, adjective
Tar·gum·ist, noun
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Targum (ˈtɑːɡəm, Hebrew tarˈɡum)
 
—n
an Aramaic translation, usually in the form of an expanded paraphrase, of various books or sections of the Old Testament
 
[C16: from Aramaic: interpretation]
 
Targumic
 
—adj
 
Tar'gumical
 
—adj
 
'Targumist
 
—n

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