[OLD REGGIE]

Gee, I wonder if there is any direct Aramaic translation for Cephas?

I cry you mercy. What is your argument?

There is no argument, but there is the unanswered question.

[Mad Dawg]

There is no argument, but there is the unanswered question.

But the question, as posed, is at best unclear.

Gee, I wonder if there is any direct Aramaic translation for Cephas?As written it makes no sense. Cephas is Aramaic, is it not?

Otherwise, translation FROM Aramaic TO ... what? English? Greek? Latin? What?

I could find nothing in the Aramaic part of my Brown, Driver, Briggs lexicon.

My Kittel Theological Dictionary of the NT say the Aramaic means rock or stone, and is not used as a proper name. John 1:42 explains Κηφας as meaning Πετρος (or vice versa). I have no other materials to consult,and no reason to believe that Petros is not the masculinization of Petra to make it suitable as a denoting cognomen for Simon/Simeon.

That's enough rope-a-dope.