Targum

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  • targumim: (singular: "targum", Hebrew: תרגום‎) spoken paraphrases, explanations, and expansions of the Jewish scriptures that a Rabbi would give in the common language of the listeners, which during the time of this practice was commonly, but not exclusively, Aramaic.