INDEX OF SYRIAC TERMS
abila : mourner, monk 135
aksenaya : stranger 123
aksenayuta : living as a stranger (Greek xeniteia) 123
bnai qyama : ‘the sons of covenant’, ‘covenanters’ 82
dayraya : monk 61
‘enyana : converse 144
‘enyana d-’am alaha : converse with God 144
ešti : to drink 250
eštwi : to be made worthy 250
gelyana : revelation 229
ḥašša : passion 48
hauna : mind 192
haymanuta : faith 259
ḥayye : life, salvation 130
herga : meditation 208
herga db-alaha : meditation on God 208
ḥubba : love 41
ḥubba alahaya : divine love 75
ḥubba šapya : luminous love 73
hullala (pl. hullale): hullala (part of the Psalter) 198
ḥulḥana : mingling 59
ḥzata : vision 229
ḥzata alahaya: divine vision 229
ida’ta : knowledge 259
ihidaya : solitary, monk 61–62, 84, 135
kyanayta : natural 225
k’inuta : justice 41
kyana : nature 22
mad’a : understanding 192
maggnanuta : overshadowing, tabernacling 236
makkikuta : humility 111
marmita (pl. marmyata): marmita (part of the Psalter) 187–189, 245
mdabbranuta : providence, economy (Greek oikonomia) 88
meštabqanuta : abandonment 101
mliluta : reason (Greel logistikon) 47
mraḥmanuta : mercifulness 41
mukkaka : humility 111
mḥallyane : the Messalians 152
nahhiruta : illumination 238
nesyana : experience 92
nesyona : trial, temptation 91
nuhra : light 238–239
nuhra alahaya : divine light 240
nuhra d-šupra d-napšeh : light of the beauty of one’s soul (of oneself) 240
pehya : wondering, distraction 213
qaddiše : saints 116
qeryana : reading 105, 174
qnoma (pl. qnome) : being, substance, hypostasis (Greek
qyama : covenant 82
raḥme : mercy 41
rawwayuta : inebriation 248
re’yana : mind 192
reḥmta : desire (Greek
epithymitikon) 47 renya : reflection, meditation 208
ruḥanayta : spiritual 225
šelya : stillness 77, 219
šelyuta : silence, stillness 77
ḥlota dkita : pure prayer 213
ḥlota ruhanayta : spiritual prayer 218
sukkale : insights 179, 215, 234
sta : turn aside 281
tar’ita : thought, thinking 192
tassa : a gold leaf on the ark of covenant 167
te’orya : contemplation, divine vision (Greek theoria) 221, 223, 267
te’orya d-ruḥ : spiritual contemplation 242
te’orya mal’akayta : angelic contemplation 227
te’orya ruḥanayta : spiritual contemplation 226
te’oryas šmayyanyata : heavenly contemplations 227
tehra : wonder, amazement (Greek ekstasis) 242
tehra db-alaha : wonder at God 246
temha : wonder, amazement 242
tnana : zeal (Greek thymoiedes) 47
tyabuta : repentance 131
‘uhdana : recollection, remembrance 208
yammeh d-’alma : the sea of the world 131
zaw’e : stirrings 218