Editing Language of Jesus (section)

===Gethsemane (Γεθσημανῆ)===
[[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]] 26:36
: ''Then Jesus went with them to a place called [[Gethsemane]].''
[[Gospel of Mark|Mark]] 14:32
: ''And they went to a place that has the name [[Gethsemane]].''

The place where Jesus takes his disciples to pray before his arrest is given the Greek transliteration Γεθσημανῆ (Gethsēmanē). It represents the Aramaic ''Gath-Šmānē'', meaning 'the oil press' or 'oil vat' (referring to olive oil).

In Aramaic, it could be ܓܕܣܡܢ. This place name is more properly an Aramaized version of an original Hebrew place name. ''Gath'' גת is a normal word for press in Hebrew, generally used for a wine press not an olive press though; and ''shemanei'' שמני is the Hebrew word ''shemanim'' שמנים meaning "oils", the plural form of the word ''shemen'' שמן, the primary Hebrew word for oil, just in a construct form (''-ei'' instead of the ordinary plural suffix ''-im''). The word in Aramaic for "oil" is more properly ''mišḥa'' (משחא), as also attested in [[Jewish]] writings in Aramaic from the [[Galilee]] (see Caspar Levias, A Grammar of Galilean Aramaic, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1986).