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# אֲרָרַט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H780

**Ararat** — used 4 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

Ararat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/780/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲרָרַט: n.pr.terr. Ararat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/780/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.terr. Ararat (Assyrian Urarṭu COTGloss, cf. LagArmen. Stud. § 100)—א׳ Je 51:27; אֲרָרָ֑ט Gn 8:4 + 3 times—a district in Eastern Armenia between the river Araxes & lakes Van & Oroomiah, cf. KGF; to this prob. ref. in 2 K 19:37 = Is 37:38 אֶרֶץ א׳; also Gn 8:4 הָרֵי א׳, where the ark rested; used perhaps with wider ref. Je 51:27 מַמְלְכוֹת א׳ (‖ מִנִּי, אַשְׁכְּנַז).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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: of Ararat (4).

## In the verses

[Genesis 8:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.8.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.8.4/#tree)

וַתָּ֤נַח הַתֵּבָה֙ בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י בְּשִׁבְעָה־עָשָׂ֥ר י֖וֹם לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ עַ֖ל הָרֵ֥י אֲרָרָֽט׃

*Word for word:* and it.rested the ark in the month (the) seventh on.\[the\] seven- teen day of the month on the.mountains of.Ararat

*JPS 1917:* And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

[Jeremiah 51:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.27/#tree)

שְׂאוּ־נֵ֣ס בָּאָ֗רֶץ תִּקְע֨וּ שׁוֹפָ֤ר בַּגּוֹיִם֙ קַדְּשׁ֤וּ עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ גּוֹיִ֔ם הַשְׁמִ֧יעוּ עָלֶ֛יהָ מַמְלְכ֥וֹת אֲרָרַ֖ט מִנִּ֣י וְאַשְׁכְּנָ֑ז פִּקְד֤וּ עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ טִפְסָ֔ר הַֽעֲלוּ־ס֖וּס כְּיֶ֥לֶק סָמָֽר׃

*Word for word:* lift.up a.standard in the land blow a.trumpet among the nations consecrate on it nations summon on it the.kingdoms of.Ararat Minni and Ashkenaz appoint on it an.official bring.up horse\[s\] like locust\[s\] bristly

*JPS 1917:* Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the horn among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/780.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/780/): 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).