אֲרַוְנָהʼĂravnâh

proper name, masculine: Araunah, a Jebusite (2 Samuel 24:20; 2 Samuel 24:21; 2 Samuel 24:22; 2 Samuel 24:23; 2 Samuel 24:24)

Pronunciation: ar-av-naw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H728

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Where it appears

Appears 9 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 24:16 But as the angel was preparing to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented and said to the death angel, “Stop! That is enough!” At that moment the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
  • 2 Samuel 24:18 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 24:20 When Araunah saw the king and his men coming toward him, he came and bowed before the king with his face to the ground.
  • 2 Samuel 24:21 “Why have you come, my lord the king?” Araunah asked. David replied, “I have come to buy your threshing floor and to build an altar to the Lord there, so that he will stop the plague.”
  • 2 Samuel 24:22 “Take it, my lord the king, and use it as you wish,” Araunah said to David. “Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and you can use the threshing boards and ox yokes for wood to build a fire on the altar.
  • 2 Samuel 24:23 I will give it all to you, Your Majesty, and may the Lord your God accept your sacrifice.”
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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).