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# עָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6144

**Ar** — used 6 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

Ar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6144/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָר: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6144/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in Moab, S. of Arnon (Ηρ Nu 21:15, elsewhere chiefly Αροηρ);—ע׳ Nu 21:15; Dt 2:9, 18, 29; עָר מוֹאָך Nu 21:28; Is 15:1;—usually interpreted as capital city (עָר = עִיר) of Moab (DHMZMG xxxvii (1883), 398 cp. Sab. ער fortified height, cf. MordtmHim. Inschr. 29 HalEt.Sab. 159, so Arabic ٱلْعُرُّ, dial. of Yemen); BuhlGeogr. 269 f. thinks name of district S. of Arnon.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (27 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (20 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ar (5); of Ar (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 2:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.18/#tree)

אַתָּ֨ה עֹבֵ֥ר הַיּ֛וֹם אֶת־גְּב֥וּל מוֹאָ֖ב אֶת־עָֽר׃

*Word for word:* you \[are\].about.to.pass.over this day (et) the.border of.Moab (et) Ar

*JPS 1917:* 'Thou art this day to pass over the border of Moab, even Ar;

[Numbers 21:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.15/#tree)

וְאֶ֙שֶׁד֙ הַנְּחָלִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר נָטָ֖ה לְשֶׁ֣בֶת עָ֑ר וְנִשְׁעַ֖ן לִגְב֥וּל מוֹאָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and the.slope of the.wadis which it.extends to the.dwelling of.Ar and it.leans to the.border of.Moab

*JPS 1917:* And the slope of the valleys that inclineth toward the seat of Ar, and leaneth upon the border of Moab. —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6144.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6144/): 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).