Hebrew word · H720

אֲרוֹד

la'arod

Arod

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man of the tribe of Gad living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.46.16;

son of: Gad (H1410);

brother of: Ziphion (H6837), Haggi (H2291), Shuni (H7764), Ezbon (H0675), Eri (H6179) and Areli (H0692); also called Arod at Num.26.17;

Also named: a.ro.di (אֲרוֹדִי "Arodi" H0722)

§ Arod = "I shall subdue: I shall roam"

a son of Gad

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 · 1

  1. Numbers 26:17 לַאֲר֕וֹד of Arod

    the Arodite clan from Arod, and the Arelite clan from Areli.

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