Hebrew Translation

[flintknapper]

What is the translation of the Hebrew words (prefixes?) "ben" and "bar"?

[Romach]

"son of"
Shimon bar Kochba
Simon son of the Star.

[Donald_McRonald]

And if you need any further explication, I've got the Brown Driver Briggs Old Testament Lexicon on my bookshelf waiting to be cracked open. :)

[flintknapper]

Okay, "bar" means "son of". What about "ben"?

[Romach]

Same thing:
Yeshua ben Yuseph
Joshua son of Joseph

[anders]

The difference is that ben is Hebrew, bar is Aramaic.

[flintknapper]

The difference is that ben is Hebrew, bar is Aramaic.

Thanks anders, that's the difference I was looking for.