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

hypostasis) 19, 22–24

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