Footnote 5 – Caiaphas Name Inscribed on Bone Boxes

While bat (tb) is “daughter of” in Hebrew, berat (trb) is the Aramaic equivalent. Similarly ben (÷b) is “son of” in Hebrew, but bar (rb) is the Aramaic form. The organization B’nai B’rith means sons of the covenant in Hebrew; bar mitzvah means son of the commandment in Aramaic. When modern Jews created a similar ceremony for girls, they called it bat mitzvah (daughter of the commandment), rather than the equivalent Aramaic form berat mitzvah.