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Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H728

אֲרַוְנָה

Aravnahar-av-naw'

Araunah

9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʼĂravnâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H728is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 5
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H728

Aravnah (or Arnijah or Ornah), a Jebusite

The King James renders it: Araunah.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

Aravnah is rendered "Araunah". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.

  • Nine of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 24:16But 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.
  • The Greek text spells it five different ways.

The first use

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 24:16הָאֲרַ֥וְנָה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Nine of the word's nine uses are in 2 Samuel.

The other 38 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • Araunah8
  • the Araunah1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

אֲרַעaraearth: soilUses21
אֲרַמִּיArammiArameanUses11
אֲרַקaraqearthUses1
אֲרַךְarakbe properUses1

The words it stands beside

All 9, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

5 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • אֲרַ֥וְנָה2
  • אֲרַ֗וְנָה2
  • אֲרַ֔וְנָה2
  • אֲרַ֙וְנָה֙2
  • הָאֲרַ֥וְנָה1

The grammar of each form

  • proper noun (a name)8HNpm
  • the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)1HTd/Npm

2 Samuel

nine uses
  • 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 24:16

    • הָאֲרַ֥וְנָהhaornahthe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Araunah
  • 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 24:18

    • אֲרַ֥וְנָהʾaraneyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Araunah
  • 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 24:20

    • אֲרַ֗וְנָהʾaravnahproper noun (a name)tagged: Araunah
    • אֲרַ֔וְנָהʾaravnahproper noun (a name)tagged: Araunah
  • “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 24:21

    • אֲרַ֔וְנָהʾaravnahproper noun (a name)tagged: Araunah
  • 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.

    2 Samuel 24:22

    • אֲרַ֙וְנָה֙ʾaravnahproper noun (a name)tagged: Araunah
  • O king, Araunah gives all these to the king.” He also said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”

    2 Samuel 24:23

    • אֲרַ֥וְנָהʾaravnahproper noun (a name)tagged: Araunah
    • אֲרַ֙וְנָה֙ʾaravnahproper noun (a name)tagged: Araunah
  • “No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

    2 Samuel 24:24

    • אֲרַ֗וְנָהʾaravnahproper noun (a name)tagged: Araunah

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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