אׇרְנָןʼOrnân

Ornan, a Jebusite

Pronunciation: or-nawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H771

Meanings

proper name, masculine: a Jebusite, whose threshing-floor was bought by David to erect an altar (1 Chronicles 21:15; 1 Chronicles 21:18; 1 Chronicles 21:20; 1 Chronicles 21:21; 1 Chronicles 21:22)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 12 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Chronicles 21:15 And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But just as the angel was preparing to destroy it, the Lord relented and said to the death angel, “Stop! That is enough!” At that moment the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
  • 1 Chronicles 21:18 Then the angel of the Lord told Gad to instruct David to go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
  • 1 Chronicles 21:20 Araunah, who was busy threshing wheat at the time, turned and saw the angel there. His four sons, who were with him, ran away and hid.
  • 1 Chronicles 21:21 When Araunah saw David approaching, he left his threshing floor and bowed before David with his face to the ground.
  • 1 Chronicles 21:22 David said to Araunah, “Let me buy this threshing floor from you at its full price. Then I will build an altar to the Lord there, so that he will stop the plague.”
  • 1 Chronicles 21:23 “Take it, my lord the king, and use it as you wish,” Araunah said to David. “I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, and the threshing boards for wood to build a fire on the altar, and the wheat for the grain offering. I will give it all to you.”
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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).