HH: One thought that occurs to me is that Jesus elsewhere in the gospels seems to speak Aramaic rather than Hebrew where there are speech fragments in a language other than Greek. That suggests ABBA was Aramaic, and thus according to what has been said would have meant "father." If that is the case, then the Greek NT translation of ABBA as "father" would make sense.
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