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HebrewH6177Noun

עֲרֹעֵר

a.ro.er

16Occurrences
H6177Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Aroer, the name of three places in or near Palestine

or עֲרֹעֵר; or עַרְעוֹר; the same as H6176 (עֲרוֹעֵר); nudity of situation;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Aroer = "ruins" a city in Ammon near the Jabbok belonging to Gad Also named: a.ro.e.ri (*עֲרֹעֵרִי *"Aroerite" H6200)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

עֲרֹעֵר appears 16 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
4
Deuteronomy
3
Judges
2
1 Chronicles
1
1 Samuel
1
2 Kings
1
2 Samuel
1
Isaiah
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 5:8BSB

and Bela son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel. They settled in Aroer and as far as Nebo and Baal-meon.

2 Samuel 24:5BSB

They crossed the Jordan and camped near Aroer, south of the town in the middle of the valley, and proceeded toward Gad and Jazer.

Deuteronomy 4:48BSB

extending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),

Judges 11:33BSB

With a great blow he devastated twenty cities from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel-keramim. So the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites.

Joshua 13:9BSB

The area from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,

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