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HebrewH0728Proper Noun (Masculine)

אֲרַוְנָה

a.rav.nah

7Occurrences
H0728Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Aravnah (or Arnijah or Ornah), a Jebusite

or (by transposition) אוֹרְנָה; or אַרְנִיָּהlemma אַנִיָּה missing resh, corrected to אַרְנִיָּה; all by orthographical variation for H771 (אׇרְנָן);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at ; also called Araunah at ; Another name of or.nan (*אׇרְנָן *"Ornan" H0771) § Araunah = "I shall shout for joy" = "make ye to shine" or "joyful shouting of Jah" a Jebusite who sold David the site for an altar

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

אֲרַוְנָה appears 7 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Samuel
7

Key Passages

2 Samuel 24:16BSB

But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

2 Samuel 24:18BSB

And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

2 Samuel 24:20BSB

When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.

2 Samuel 24:21BSB

“Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said.“To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”

2 Samuel 24:22BSB

Araunah said to David, “My lord the king may take whatever seems good and offer it up. Here are the oxen for a burnt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.