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אָרוֹן

aron

aw-rone'

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼârôwn

a box

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a box

Rendered in the KJV as

ark, chest, coffin.

  • 202
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 15 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 53
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 202 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 53

  • אֲר֣וֹן51
  • אֲר֥וֹן23
  • אֲר֤וֹן11
  • אֲר֨וֹן11
  • אֲרוֹן֙8
  • אֲר֧וֹן8
  • הָאָרֹ֖ן6
  • אֲר֖וֹן5
  • אֲרוֹן־5
  • הָ֣אָר֔וֹן4
  • הָאָרֽוֹן׃4
  • הָאָרֹ֑ן4

and 41 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 18

  • [the] ark of122
  • the ark46
  • and [the] ark of9
  • an ark of3
  • for the ark3
  • [was] in the ark2
  • a chest2
  • for [the] ark of2
  • in the ark2
  • the chest2
  • to [the] ark of2
  • [was] in the chest1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 6

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)126
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular49
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular11
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)9
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)5
  • noun · masculine singular2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsc · 126
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 49
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 11
  • HC/Ncmsc · 9
  • HR/Ncmsc · 5
  • HNcmsa · 2

All 202, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

1 Samuel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis1 occurrence
Exodus26 occurrences
Leviticus1 occurrence
Numbers6 occurrences
Deuteronomy8 occurrences
Joshua30 occurrences
Judges1 occurrence
1 Samuel40 occurrences
2 Samuel21 occurrences
1 Kings12 occurrences
2 Kings2 occurrences
1 Chronicles34 occurrences
2 Chronicles18 occurrences
Psalms1 occurrence
Jeremiah1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).