Aram appears 133 times as both a personal and geographic name. In the Table of Nations it is the fifth son of Shem (Gen 10:22), and 'Aram' also names a grandson of Nahor (Gen 22:21). Far more often, however, the word designates the Aramean people and their territories stretching from the Euphrates bend through Damascus and into northern Syria — the persistent neighbor, rival, and sometimes overlord of Israel and Judah. The compound expressions Aram-Naharaim ('Aram of the two rivers,' Gen 24:10), Aram-Damascus, and Aram-Zobah identify specific Aramean kingdoms. The wars between Israel and Aram dominate much of Kings and Chronicles (1 Kgs 20; 2 Kgs 5-8). The Septuagint typically renders it Syria.