עֲרָד

a.radArad
hebrewOld TestamentName of a place5 occurrences4 books5 verses
This name belongs to 2 different people and places in the Bible:
  • Arad: A Benjamite, son of Beriah
  • Arad: Arad, Canaanite city, attacked Israel, later inhabited by Kenites

Definition

from an unused root meaning to sequester itself; fugitive; Arad, the name of a place near Palestine, also of a Canaanite and an Israelite
Traditional renderings: Arad.

Glossary entries

Arad (Place) Arad (Person)

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

5 total
  1. Numbers 21:1עֲרָד֙ · of Arad
    When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked Israel and captured some prisoners.
  2. Numbers 33:40עֲרָ֔ד · of Arad
    Now the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming.
  3. Joshua 12:14עֲרָ֖ד · of Arad
    …the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
  4. Judges 1:16עֲרָ֑ד · near Arad
    Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.
  5. 1 Chronicles 8:15וַעֲרָ֖ד · Arad
    Zebadiah, Arad, Eder,