עֲרֹעֵר

a.ro.erAroer
hebrewOld TestamentName of a place16 occurrences10 books16 verses
This name belongs to 3 different places in the Bible:
  • Aroer: A city in Judah, receiving spoils from David
  • Aroer: A city on the edge of the Arnon Valley
  • Aroer: A city in Gad, built by the Gadites

Definition

or עֲרֹעֵר; or עַרְעוֹר; the same as H6176; nudity of situation; Aroër, the name of three places in or near Palestine
Traditional renderings: Aroer.

Glossary entries

Aroer Aroerite

Where it occurs

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

16 total
  1. Numbers 32:34עֲרֹעֵֽר׃ · Aroer
    And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
  2. Deuteronomy 2:36מֵֽעֲרֹעֵ֡ר · From Aroer
    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.
  3. Deuteronomy 3:12מֵעֲרֹעֵ֞ר · [the land] beyond Aroer
    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.
  4. Deuteronomy 4:48מֵעֲרֹעֵ֞ר · extending from Aroer
    …extending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),
  5. Joshua 12:2מֵעֲרוֹעֵ֡ר · from Aroer
    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,
  6. Joshua 13:9מֵעֲרוֹעֵ֡ר · [The area] from Aroer
    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,
  7. Joshua 13:16מֵעֲרוֹעֵ֡ר · from Aroer
    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,
  8. Joshua 13:25עֲרוֹעֵ֕ר · Aroer
    The territory of Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, near Rabbah;
  9. Judges 11:26וּבְעַרְע֣וֹר · Aroer
    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?
  10. Judges 11:33מֵעֲרוֹעֵר֩ · from Aroer
    With a great blow he devastated twenty cities from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel-keramim. So the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites.
  11. 1 Samuel 30:28בַּעֲרֹעֵ֛ר · in Aroer
    …to those in Aroer, Siphmoth, and Eshtemoa;
  12. 2 Samuel 24:5בַעֲרוֹעֵ֗ר · near Aroer
    They crossed the Jordan and camped near Aroer, south of the town in the middle of the valley, and proceeded toward Gad and Jazer.
  13. 2 Kings 10:33מֵעֲרֹעֵר֙ · and from Aroer
    …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.
  14. 1 Chronicles 5:8בַּעֲרֹעֵ֔ר · in Aroer
    …and Bela son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel. They settled in Aroer and as far as Nebo and Baal-meon.
  15. Isaiah 17:2עֲרֹעֵ֑ר · of Aroer
    The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.
  16. Jeremiah 48:19עֲרוֹעֵ֑ר · of Aroer
    Stand by the road and watch, O dweller of Aroer! Ask the man fleeing or the woman escaping, ‘What has happened?’