abba meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

Abba

nounalso spelled Abba

UK /ˈæb.ə/ · US /ˈæb.ə/

Etymology From Middle English, from Latin abba, from Ancient Greek ἀββα (abba), from Aramaic אבא/ܐܒܐ (ʼabbāʼ, “father”).

Christianity Father, an honorific title given to God in the New Testament, especially used in prayers.

And because yee are sonnes, God hath sent foorth the spirit of his Sonne into your hearts, crying Abba, Father.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Galatians 4:6:

abba

noun

Etymology From Middle English, from Latin, from Ancient Greek, from Aramaic אבא/ܐܒܐ (ʼaḇā, “father”); see abbot, Abraham for more.

Christianity Judaism Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period.

The abba of the coenobion went to him and told him about the brother who had slipped up.2012, The Book of the Elders: Sayings of the Desert Fathers, →ISBN, page 135:

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