Some obvious similarities and differences are listed below: Similarities Hebrew and Aramaic have simplified the inflections of the noun, adjective and verb. These are more highly inflected in classical Arabic, Babylonian and Ugaritic. Differences The definite article is a suffixed -ā (א) in Aramaic (an emphatic or determined state), but a prefixed h- (ה) in Hebrew. Aramaic is not a Canaanite language and so did not experience the Canaanite vowel shift from * ā to ō. In Aramaic, the preposition dalet functions as a conjunction and is often used instead of the construct to indicate the genitive/possessive relationship. Sound changes In the Hebrew Bible Undisputed occurrences Genesis 31:47translation of a Hebrew placename, Jegar-Sahadutha Strong's #H3026 Proverbs 31:2 the Aramaic word bar is used instead of the usual Hebrew ben, (both meaning "son"). Jeremiah 10:11a single sentence denouncing idolatry occurs in the middle of a Hebrew text. Daniel 2:4b–7:28five stories about Daniel and his colleagues, and an apocalyptic vision. Ezra 4:8–6:18 and 7:12–26quotations of documents from the 5th century BCE on the restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem. Other suggested occurrences Genesis 15:1the word במחזה (ba-maħaze, "in a vision"). According to the Zohar (I:88b), the word is Aramaic, as the usual Hebrew word would be (ba-mar’e). Numbers 23:10the word רבע (rôḇa‘, usually translated as "stock" or "fourth part"). Joseph H. Hertz, in his commentary on this verse, cites Friedrich Delitzsch's claim (cited in William F. Albright' JBL 63 (1944), p. 213, n.28) that it is an Aramaic word meaning "dust". Job 36:2a ("כַּתַּר־ לִ֣י זְ֭עֵיר וַאֲחַוֶּ֑ךָּ")Rashi, in his commentary on the verse, states that the phrase is in Aramaic. Psalm 2:12the word בר (bar) is interpreted by some Christian sources (including the King James Version) to be the Aramaic word for "son" and renders the phrase נשקו-בר (nashəqū-bar) as "kiss the Son," a reference to Jesus. Jewish sources and some Christian sources (including Jerome's Vulgate) follow the Hebrew reading of ("purity") and translate the phrase as "embrace purity." See Psalm 2 for further discussion of the controversy. Chaldean misnomer For many centuries, from at least the time of Jerome of Stridon (d. 420), Biblical Aramaic was misnamed as "Chaldean" (Chaldaic, Chaldee). That label remained common in early Aramaic studies, and persisted up to the nineteenth century. The "Chaldean" misnomer was consequently abandoned, when further research showed conclusively that the Aramaic dialect used in the Hebrew Bible was not related to the