Bar Hebraeus writes about the sons of Shem: "Assyrians, Chaldeans, Lydians, [Lurs?], Syriacs, Hebrews, Persians." Interesting how he replaced Arameans with Syriacs, while Assyrians remained unchanged. Suryoyo/Syriac refers exclusively to Arameans, regardless of its etymology.

"I thank You, God the Father, who brought me from non-existence into existence, and by Your grace have led me to the knowledge of Your greatness. From the depths of the voiceless, You raised me by Your Word, and to the heights of the spiritual ones You have exalted me. You have removed from me the impediment of the tongue and the stammering of speech, and You have multiplied perfect gifts upon me. You did not corrupt me with barbaric, pagan astrology, but instead brought me to the eloquent Syriac-Aramean nation. Nature, worshipped by all powers; Power, who empowers all; Light, who illuminates all — You are glorified in Your oneness and exalted in Your Trinity by minds enlightened by the light of Your face, now and forever and ever."

“A lovely conversation with our brothers and sons of our race (fellow countrymen), the beloved and humble Syriac Jacobites, in the form of a disputation between St. Aphrem the Teacher and his Aramean Nation, that is to say, the Syriac Nation.”

"All who love the Aramaeandom are eager to familiarise themselves concerning his instruction."

"With the help of our Lord I have arrived at the end. And as a miracle provides the sweetness of the essence of the Aramaeandom, I have arranged (only) the beginnings for you (and) I ask you to be very careful with it."

"Aramean teachers give advice about this and say: do not talk too much, neither words of wisdom" "For the fear of God and the love of mankind by the Arameans."

"And as a careful examination by scholars (shows), the art of writing was a discovery of the Arameans; and among those who received it were the Greeks and the Romans, and the Saracens (i.e. Arabs), and the Persians, and the Armenians. Therefore, for the Arameans it is a blessing without equal among all mankind."

"My dear and beloved Aramean, in many ways I am indebted to you on account of the racial love of Adam and the Semitic one of Aram (that burns in my heart)." "I think, my dear one, . . . that you long for the Aramaic tongue, the tongue which my ancestors spoke – the lordly and ancient language. That (language) in which our Lord spoke when he was dwelling on the earth."

"The children of Aram planted the fertile country north of Babylonia, called Aram Naharaim, or ‘Aram between the two rivers,’ the Euphrates and Tigris, thence called by the Greeks, Mesopotamia, Gen. xxiv. 10: and Padan Aram, the level country of Aram, Gen. xxv. 20. This country of Aram is frequently rendered Syria in Scripture; Judges x. 6; Hosea xii. 12, &c.; which is not to be confounded with Palestine Syria; into which they afterwards spread themselves, still retaining their original name, of Ἀράμοι, or Arameans, noticed by Homer, Il. ii. 783." Here it is written that the Arameans were from Mesopotamia, that is Aram Naharaim. It also states that Aram is synonymous with Syria in Scripture. Furthermore, it mentions that when the Arameans spread to Palestine Syria, they retained their original name.

"Syriac, i. e. the language of the Christian Arameans, who had their headquarters in Edessa in a northern Mesopotamia, is, in the first place, historically important, since it was through the medium of Syriac literature that Christian and philosophic learning passed to the Arabs and Persians, and even to India and China" Syriac is said to be the language of the Aramean Christians, i.e., Syriacs.

"We have already expressed the assumption that originally, northern Mesopotamia in the narrower sense, as the relatively original land of the Arameans, was called 'Aram' and that this name was only later transferred to some other parts of Mesopotamia and Syria. Here, the Arameans are connected as a native people of northern Mesopotamia, and the name of their land, Aram, was also used to refer to Syria and parts of Mesopotamia, such as Aram-Naharaim." Aram is stated to be synonymous with Syria.

Eliya of Nisibis is referenced with the statement that ܐܳܪܳܡܳܐ (translated as Aram) is the name of a place, while ܐܳܪܳܡܳܝܳܐ (translated as Aramean) is a Syriac. Here, Aramean is synonymous with and equated to 'a Syriac.' The author, referencing Isho Bar Ali and Bar Bahlul, makes the statement that Armojó and Armoït mean pagan and heathen. He further notes that this distinction already appears in the Syriac translation of the New Testament, where Ἕλληνες (Hellenes, i.e., Greeks) is translated as Armojó, ἐθνικῶς (ethnikos, i.e., gentile/pagan) as Armoït, and ὁ Σύρος (ho Syros, i.e., the Syrian) as Oromojó. Thus, it is said that Aramean and pagan/heathen are differentiated.