Midvash

עֲרָדʻĂrâd

עָרַג: long for

Pronunciation: ar-awd' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6166

Meanings

עֲרָד: proper name [of a location]: Canaanite city in the Negeb (Judges 1:16; Numbers 21:1; Numbers 33:40; Joshua 12:14)

עֲרָד: proper name, masculine: Benjamite (1 Chronicles 8:15)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 21:1 The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that the Israelites were approaching on the road through Atharim. So he attacked the Israelites and took some of them as prisoners.
  • Numbers 33:40 At that time the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard that the people of Israel were approaching his land.
  • Joshua 12:14 The king of Hormah The king of Arad
  • Judges 1:16 When the tribe of Judah left Jericho—the city of palms—the Kenites, who were descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, traveled with them into the wilderness of Judah. They settled among the people there, near the town of Arad in the Negev.
  • 1 Chronicles 8:15 Zebadiah, Arad, Eder,

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).