Hebrew word · H769

אַרְנוֹן

'arnon

Arnon

Appears 25 times in 23 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

§ Arnon = "rushing stream"

a river and surrounding valley in south Palestine, forms the border between Moab and the Amorites

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 · 7
  1. Numbers 21:13 אַרְנוֹן֙ אַרְנוֹן֙ Arnon

    From there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends into the Amorite territory. Now the Arnon is the border between the Moabites and the Amorites.

  2. Numbers 21:14 אַרְנֽוֹן׃ Arnon

    Therefore it is stated in the Book of the Wars of the LORD: “Waheb in Suphah and the wadis of the Arnon,

  3. Numbers 21:24 מֵֽאַרְנֹ֗ן from Arnon

    And Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified.

    Here: The Arnon (today's Wadi Mujib), the deep canyon running into the Dead Sea from the east. It is the southern limit, and the traditional border with Moab (v. 13).

  4. Numbers 21:26 אַרְנֹֽן׃ Arnon

    Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.

  5. Numbers 21:28 אַרְנֹֽן׃ Arnon

    For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.

  6. Numbers 22:36 אַרְנֹ֔ן Arnon

    When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the Moabite city on the Arnon border, at the edge of his territory.

Deuteronomy · 6
  1. Deuteronomy 2:24 אַרְנֹן֒ Arnon

    “Arise, set out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have delivered into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.

  2. Deuteronomy 2:36 אַרְנֹ֜ן Arnon

    From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

    Here: The great gorge that ran east to west into the Dead Sea. It was the accepted border between Moab to the south and the Amorite kingdom of Sihon to the north (Num 21:13).

  3. Deuteronomy 3:8 אַרְנֹ֖ן Arnon

    At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon—

  4. Deuteronomy 3:12 אַרְנֹ֗ן Arnon

    So at that time we took possession of this land. To the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the land beyond Aroer along the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead, along with its cities.

  5. Deuteronomy 3:16 אַרְנֹ֔ן Arnon

    and to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.

  6. Deuteronomy 4:48 אַרְנֹ֛ן Arnon

    extending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),

Joshua · 4
  1. Joshua 12:1 אַרְנוֹן֙ Arnon

    Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites struck down and whose lands they took beyond the Jordan to the east, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward:

  2. Joshua 12:2 אַרְנ֜וֹן Arnon

    Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along the middle of the valley, up to the Jabbok River (the border of the Ammonites), that is, half of Gilead,

    Here: Modern Wadi el-Mujib, flowing west into the Dead Sea. It is the traditional border between Moab to the south and the land Israel claimed to the north.

  3. Joshua 13:9 אַרְנ֜וֹן Arnon

    The area from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,

  4. Joshua 13:16 אַרְנ֜וֹן Arnon

    The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, to the whole plateau beyond Medeba,

Judges · 5
  1. Judges 11:13 מֵאַרְנ֥וֹן from [the] Arnon

    The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they seized my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and all the way to the Jordan. Now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”

  2. Judges 11:18 אַרְנ֑וֹן אַרְנ֖וֹן [the] Arnon

    Then Israel traveled through the wilderness and bypassed the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, since the Arnon was its border.

  3. Judges 11:22 מֵֽאַרְנוֹן֙ from [the] Arnon

    seizing all the land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.

  4. Judges 11:26 אַרְנ֔וֹן [the] Arnon

    For three hundred years Israel has lived in Heshbon, Aroer, and their villages, as well as all the cities along the banks of the Arnon. Why did you not take them back during that time?

2 Kings · 1
  1. 2 Kings 10:33 אַרְנֹ֔ן Arnon

    from the Jordan eastward through all the land of Gilead (the region of Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh), and from Aroer by the Arnon Valley through Gilead to Bashan.

Isaiah · 1
  1. Isaiah 16:2 לְאַרְנֽוֹן׃ of Arnon

    Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:

Jeremiah · 1
  1. Jeremiah 48:20 בְאַרְנ֔וֹן at [the] Arnon

    Moab is put to shame, for it has been shattered. Wail and cry out! Declare by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.

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