אֲרַוְנָה
a.rav.nah
Araunah
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Araunah: A Biblical Proper Name Araunah (Hebrew אֲרַוְנָה) is a personal name appearing twelve times in the Hebrew Bible. As a proper noun, it functions as an identifier for a specific individual rather than conveying descriptive meaning through etymological components. The lexical data provided does not include semantic information beyond the name itself, indicating that Araunah's significance lies entirely in its referential function—identifying a particular person in biblical narratives. The frequency of twelve occurrences suggests this figure held sufficient narrative importance to warrant repeated mention, though the lexicon data alone does not specify the contexts, time periods, or roles associated with these appearances. Without additional definitional information, we can conclude only that Araunah represents an established biblical figure whose name warranted inclusion in the Hebrew scriptural record and whose story was deemed significant enough to reference multiple times throughout the text.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
12 total occurrences across the text
God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:18Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:20Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
1 Chronicles 21:20Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
1 Chronicles 21:21As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
1 Chronicles 21:21As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
1 Chronicles 21:22Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Yahweh on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
1 Chronicles 21:23Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
1 Chronicles 21:24King David said to Ornan, “No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
1 Chronicles 21:25So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
1 Chronicles 21:28At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
2 Chronicles 3:1Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.