~ Interesting Mentions of the term "the Syrian language/the Syriack language" in the King James Bible:

👉🏻 This post does not aim to show that Syriack/Syrian/Aramaic was ever the original written language of the entire Bible or of the the world (because the first assumption is false and on the 2nd assumption, we do not know what the 1st/original language of the world was), but rather that Syraick was used as 1 of the important languages throughout the Middle East during and its importance as a regional language in the Old Testament Books of Daniel, Ezra, Esther, Isaiah, 2 Kings & in small parts of the New Testament

👉🏻 Syraick/Syriac/Syrian/Aramaic, like Biblical Hebrew, was also spoken in the Middle East as a common language at the time of the Old Testament

📜 Both Syriack & Biblical Hebrew were used both outside of & in Jerusalem (see Isaiah 36:17-32).
👉🏻 King Hezekiah's ambassadors/ambassadours Eliakim, Shebna, & Joah did not want the Assyrian Rabshakeh to speak in Biblical Hebrew but Syriack, yet the opposite happened since Rabshakeh loudly cried in Biblical Hebrew (read Isaiah 36:11‐22; 2 Kings 18:26-37).

~ Isaiah 36:11,13 1611 KJB 📖 📜
Then sayd Eliakim and Shebna & Ioah vnto Rabshakeh; Speake, I pray thee, vnto thy seruants in the Syrian language; for we vnderstand it: and speake not to vs in the Iewes language, in the eares of the people that are on the wall.
Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loude voice in the Iewes language, and spake, saying, Heare the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

~ 2 Kings 18:26
Then said Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Ioah, vnto Rabshakeh, Speake, I pray thee, to thy seruants in the Syrian language, (for wee vnderstand it) and talke not with vs in the Iewes language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

📜 In Babylon, Syraick was used by King Nebuchadnezzer's servants the Caldeans/Babylonians, showing Syriack was a known, recognized language in order to be spoken in Babylon:

~ Daniel 2:2-4
Then the King commanded to call the Magicians, and the Astrologers, and the Sorcerors, and the Caldeans, for to shew the King his dreames: so they came and stood before the king.
And the King said vnto them, I haue dreamed a dreame, and my spirit was troubled to know the dreame.
Then spake the Caldeans to the King in Syraicke; O king, liue for euer: tell thy seruants the dreame, and we will shew the interpretation.

📜 At the time of the Medo Persian Empire, the Persian Empire & its kings & leaders recognized both Syraick & Biblical Hebrew, along with numerous other languages, as being regionally known languages.

~ Ezra 4:7
And in the dayes of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, vnto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.

~ Esther 8:9
Then were the kings scribes called at that time, in the third moneth, (that is, the month Siuan) on the three and twentieth day thereof, and it was written (according to all that Mordecai commanded) vnto the Iewes, and to the Lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the prouinces, which are from India vnto Ethiopia, an hundred, twentie and seuen prouinces, vnto euery prouince according to the writing thereof, and vnto euery people after their language, and to the Iewes, according to their writing, and according to their language.

👉🏻 Scripture records 2 instances of Jesus speaking Syriac/Aramaic [He spoke Greek, Hebrew & Syriack/Aramaic at varying times+instances, since the Trinity (including Jesus/God the Son) created languages in Genesis 11 from 1 preFlood language at the Tower of Babel when God divided+seperated both nations into their bounds of habitation from the sons+grandsons of Japheth+Ham+Shem & languages that came from 1 language
📜 Jesus spoke Greek in John 12:20-21, Mark 7:26-27, Luke 4:24-25 ["Elias"] & many verses, spoke Biblical Hebrew in Luke 4:16-19 & Mark 5:38,41 & spoke Syriack in Matthew 4:24,26:46 & Mark 15:34

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