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# אֲרִיאֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H741

**lion of God** — used 3 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

lion of God [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/741/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲרִאֵיל: hearth, altar-hearth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/741/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] hearth, altar-hearth (𝔊 Ἀριηλ; from ארה with ל aff. according to Ew§ 163 g Ol§ 220 Sm Ez 43:15 Di Is 29:1 al.; but this formation very rare & here dub.; 𝔗 Hi De Brd Or Is 29:1 der. from אל + ארי = hearth of Ēl, v. also RSSem i. 469, who thinks of pillar-altars; cf. אראלדודה MI12 v. Sm & So, and DrSm xci)—אראיל Kt Ez 43:15, 16; (Qr אֲרִיאֵל); = הַרְאֵל v 15 (Vrss Co אריאל), all c. art.,—of altar-hearth in Ezekiel’s temple.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hearth (2); an altar hearth (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 29:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.2/#tree)

וַהֲצִיק֖וֹתִי לַֽאֲרִיאֵ֑ל וְהָיְתָ֤ה תַֽאֲנִיָּה֙ וַֽאֲנִיָּ֔ה וְהָ֥יְתָה לִּ֖י כַּאֲרִיאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.bring.distress to Ariel and it.will.be mourning and lamentation and it.will.be to me like an.altar.hearth

*JPS 1917:* Then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and moaning; and she shall be unto Me as a hearth of God.

[Ezekiel 43:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.43.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.43.16/#tree)

וְהָאֲרִיאֵ֗ל שְׁתֵּ֤ים עֶשְׂרֵה֙ אֹ֔רֶךְ בִּשְׁתֵּ֥ים עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה רֹ֑חַב רָב֕וּעַ אֶ֖ל אַרְבַּ֥עַת רְבָעָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and the.altar hearth \[is\].two.plus ten.\[cubits\] length by two.plus ten.\[cubits\] breadth \[it.is\].square to the.four sides its

*JPS 1917:* And the hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/741.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/741/): 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).