the Second Week after Epiphany
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #6177 - עַרְעוֹר
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- Aroer = "ruins"
- a city on the north bank of the river Arnon, the southern point of the territory of Sihon the king of the Amorites and later of Reuben; modern ´Arair´
- a city in Ammon near the Jabbok belonging to Gad
- a town in southern Judah
- Book
- Word
did not use
this Strong's Number
proper name, of a location Αροηρ, MI26 ערער; —
1 city on north bank of Arnon, southern limit of east Jordan Israel, עֲרֹעֵר Numbers 32:34 (JE), Deuteronomy 2:36; Deuteronomy 3:12; Deuteronomy 4:48; Joshua 12:2 (D) 2 Kings 10:33; 1 Chronicles 5:8; עֲרוֺעֵר Joshua 13:9 (D), Joshua 13:16 (P), 2 Samuel 24:5; Moabitish Jeremiah 48:19 (compare MI26); once עַרְעֹר Judges 11:26; modern `Ar`âir Buhl Geogr. 269, Tristr Moab 129 ff.
2 city near Rabbah in Ammon, עֲרֹעֵר Judges 11:33, ׳עֲרוֺ Joshua 13:25 (P), site unknown.
3 city in southern Judah, עֲרֹעֵר 1 Samuel 30:28 (ᵐ5 Αροηρ + Αμμαδει, latter originally according to We, indicating form ערערה; ᵐ5 L Παγουηλ); + Joshua 15:22 reading ׳ע (or עַרְעָרָה) for ᵑ0עַדְעָרָה, ᵐ5 B Αρουηλ, We 1 Samuel 30:28 (compare Dr HPS), Di on the passage Benn Steuern; possibly `Ar`âra approximately 9 miles south of east from Beersheba, but compare Buhl Geogr. 183. — Isaiah 17:2 read עָרֶיהָ עֲדֵי עַדᵐ5 Lo Lag Semitic i. 30 Che Buhl Lex and others (for ᵑ0עָרֵי עֲרֹעֵר). — See also Che Ency. Bib. 317.
עַרְעוֹר Judges 11:26 see עֲרוֹעֵר No. 2,.