Editing Language of Jesus (section)

===Akeldama (Ἀκελδαμά) <!-- This section is linked from [[Judas Iscariot]] -->===
[[Acts of the Apostles|Acts]] 1:19
: ''And this became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that field was called, in their own dialect, [[Akeldama]], that is Field of Blood.''

The place of [[Judas Iscariot]]'s death is clearly named Field of Blood in Greek. However, the manuscript tradition gives a number of different spellings of the Aramaic. The [[Majority Text]] reads Ἀκελδαμά (''Akeldama''); other manuscript versions give Ἀχελδαμάχ (''Acheldamach''), Ἁκελδαμά (''Hakeldama''), Ἁχελδαμά (''Hacheldama'') and Ἁκελδαμάχ (''Hakeldamach''). Despite these variant spellings the Aramaic is most probably ''ḥqēl dmā'', 'field of blood'. While the seemingly gratuitous Greek sound of ''kh'' {{IPA|[x]}} at the end of the word is difficult to explain, the Septuagint similarly adds this sound to the end of the Semitic name [[Ben Sira]] to form the Greek name for the Book of ''Sirakh'' ({{langx|la|Sirach}}). The sound may be a dialectic feature of either the Greek speakers or the original Semitic language speakers.

In Aramaic, it could be חקל דמא.