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# אַרְוַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H719

**Arvad** — used 2 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

Arvad [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/719/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרְוָד: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/719/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city of Phenicia (Assyrian Aruada, etc. v. COT Gn 10:18 DlPa 281; 𝔊 Ἀραδιοι; mod. Ruâd) on an island near main land, northward from Tripolis, mentioned with Sidon Ez 27:8, cf. 11.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Arvad (1); of Arvad (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 27:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.8/#tree)

יֹשְׁבֵ֤י צִידוֹן֙ וְאַרְוַ֔ד הָי֥וּ שָׁטִ֖ים לָ֑ךְ חֲכָמַ֤יִךְ צוֹר֙ הָ֣יוּ בָ֔ךְ הֵ֖מָּה חֹבְלָֽיִךְ׃

*Word for word:* the.inhabitants of.Sidon and Arvad they.were \[those.who\].row for you your.skillful \[people\] O.Tyre they.were in you they sailors \[were\].your

*JPS 1917:* The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers; thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots.

[Ezekiel 27:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.11/#tree)

בְּנֵ֧י אַרְוַ֣ד וְחֵילֵ֗ךְ עַל־חוֹמוֹתַ֙יִךְ֙ סָבִ֔יב וְגַ֨מָּדִ֔ים בְּמִגְדְּלוֹתַ֖יִךְ הָי֑וּ שִׁלְטֵיהֶ֞ם תִּלּ֤וּ עַל־חוֹמוֹתַ֙יִךְ֙ סָבִ֔יב הֵ֖מָּה כָּלְל֥וּ יָפְיֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* the.people of.Arvad and Helech \[were\].on walls your all.around and.\[the\] Gammadites in towers your they.were shields their they.hung.up on walls your all.around they they.perfected beauty your

*JPS 1917:* The men of Arvad and Helech were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadim were in thy towers; they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have perfected thy beauty.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/719.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/719/): 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).