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# אַהֲרֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H175

**Aaron** — used 347 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Aaron [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/175/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַהֲרֹן: n.pr.m. Aaron [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/175/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Aaron, elder brother of Moses Ex 7:7; the priest Ex 31:10 +; mentioned Ex 4:14; 15:20; 17:10; 24:1; 28:29 + (115 times Ex); Lv 8:12, 23 + (80 times Lv); Nu 20:24f; 33:39 + (101 times Nu); 1 Ch 5:29 +; Mi 6:4 (only here in proph.) ψ 77:21; 105:26; called הַכֹּהֵן Ex 31:10; 35:19; 39:41 Lv 7:34 +, v. ψ 99:6 משֶׁה וא׳ בְּכֹהֲנָיו; also בּן־א׳ הַכֹּהֵן Ex 38:21 Nu 3:32 + (all P) called קְדוֹשׁ יהוה ψ 106:16; often named with his sons Lv 2:3, 10; 6:2 +; בְּנֵי א׳ in strict sense Ex 28:1, 4, 40 + often; בְּנֵי א׳ הַכֹּהֲנִים Lv 1:5 + Nu 3:3; 10:8 Jos 21:19 1 Ch 6:42; of temple-priests in gen’l, as descendants of A., 2 Ch 26:18; 29:21; 31:19; 35:14(×2), v. also 13:9, 10 & cf. הַכֹּהֵן בֶּן־א׳ Ne 10:39; so בֵּית א׳ ψ 115:10, 12; 118:3; 135:19; אַהֲרֹן alone (= בֵּית א׳) 1 Ch 12:27(28) cf. 27:17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 46 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Aaron (250); of Aaron (94); \[were\] Aaron (2).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 10:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.10.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.10.8/#tree)

וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹ֖ן לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.spoke Yahweh to Aaron (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD spoke unto Aaron, saying:

[1 Chronicles 27:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.17/#tree)

לְלֵוִ֛י חֲשַׁבְיָ֥ה בֶן־קְמוּאֵ֖ל לְאַהֲרֹ֥ן צָדֽוֹק׃ס

*Word for word:* for Levi Hashabiah the.son of.Kemuel for Aaron Zadok

*JPS 1917:* of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/175.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/175/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).