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# עֲרָד

Biblical Hebrew

**Arad** — 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

Arad [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e8_5b8_5d3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲרָד: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e8_5b8_5d3/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Can. city in the Negeb, Αραδ (Egyptian ʿa-ru-dâ WMMAs. u. Eur. 168, 170);—Ju 1:16, מֶלֶךְ־ע׳ Nu 21:1 (JE) = 33:40, Jos 12:14 (D, Α(ι)ραθ, A 𝔊L Αδερ); prob. mod. Tel Arad, 16 1/2 miles S. of Hebron; cf. GFM Ju 1:16 BuhlGeogr. 182.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Arad (3); Arad (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 12:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.14/#tree)

מֶ֤לֶךְ חָרְמָה֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶ֥לֶךְ עֲרָ֖ד אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Hormah one the.king of.Arad one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;

[Numbers 33:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.40/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁמַ֗ע הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ עֲרָ֔ד וְהֽוּא־יֹשֵׁ֥ב בַּנֶּ֖גֶב בְּאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן בְּבֹ֖א בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.heard the Canaanite the.king of.Arad and he \[was\].dwelling in the Negev in the.land of.Canaan when came the.people of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e8_5b8_5d3.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e8_5b8_5d3/): 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).