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HebrewH0771Proper Noun (Masculine)

אׇרְנָן

or.nan

10Occurrences
H0771Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Ornan, a Jebusite

probably from H766 (אֹרֶן); strong;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at ; also called Araunah at ; Also named: a.rav.nah (*אֲרַוְנָה *"Araunah" H0728) § Ornan = "light was perpetuated: their fir trees" a Jebusite who sold, to David, a threshing floor 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

אׇרְנָן appears 10 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Chronicles
9
2 Chronicles
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 21:15BSB

Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!”At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:20BSB

Now Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.

1 Chronicles 21:22BSB

Then David said to Ornan, “Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD. Sell it to me for the full price, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”

1 Chronicles 21:24BSB

“No,” replied King David, “I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you, nor will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”

1 Chronicles 21:28BSB

At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.

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