Hebrew word · H6166

עֲרָד

'arad

Arad

Appears 5 times in 5 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

§ Arad = "a wild ass"

a royal city of the Canaanites north of the wilderness of Judah

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Numbers · 2

  1. Numbers 21:1 עֲרָד֙ Arad

    When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked Israel and captured some prisoners.

  2. Numbers 33:40 עֲרָ֔ד Arad

    Now the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming.

Joshua · 1

  1. Joshua 12:14 עֲרָ֖ד Arad

    the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;

Judges · 1

  1. Judges 1:16 עֲרָ֑ד Arad

    Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.

    Here: A town in the eastern Negev, linked in Numbers 21:1–3 with a Canaanite king and with Hormah, which comes up in the very next verse.

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 8:15 וַעֲרָ֖ד and Arad

    Zebadiah, Arad, Eder,

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