targum

What it means

1. JudaismAn Aramaic translation of the Tanakh written or compiled between the Second Temple period and the early Middle Ages.

   Jonathan who compiled the Thargum, conceives the colours of these banners to answer the pretious stones in the breastplate, and upon which the names of the Tribes were engraven.

   1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.10

   1 more example

   Eventually, the words of such Aramaic whisper-translations (called chuchotage in the modern world of international interpreters) were written down, mostly in small fragments, and these targums now provide precious linguistic and historical records for scholars of Judaism.

   2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 141

In a sentence

Jonathan who compiled the Thargum, conceives the colours of these banners to answer the pretious stones in the breastplate, and upon which the names of the Tribes were engraven.

1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.10

Where it comes from

1. Hebrewתַּרְגּוּם“translation”
2. Englishtargum

From Hebrew תַּרְגּוּם (targúm, “translation”).