עֲרֹעֵר
a.ro.er
Aroer
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Explored# Aroer: A Biblical Geographical Term Based on the lexical data, Aroer (H6177) is a proper noun designating a specific place in biblical geography. The term appears nine times throughout the Hebrew Bible, indicating it held sufficient importance to warrant multiple textual references. As a place name rather than a common noun, Aroer functions as a geographical marker rather than carrying semantic meaning that would develop or vary across contexts. The concentration of nine occurrences suggests Aroer served as a notable landmark or settlement significant enough to be mentioned repeatedly in biblical narratives and geographical descriptions. However, the lexical data provided does not specify the location's precise geographical coordinates, its political or religious significance, or the contexts in which these nine references appear. Without additional contextual information from the lexicon entry itself, the exact nature of Aroer's importance to biblical history remains limited to what the frequency of mention implies: it was a place familiar enough to ancient readers to require no definition or explanation when named.
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Occurrences in Scripture
9 total occurrences across the text
Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch. Ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, ‘What has been done?’
Deuteronomy 2:36From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. Yahweh our God delivered up all before us.
Deuteronomy 3:12This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;
Deuteronomy 4:48from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (also called Hermon),
Joshua 12:2Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
Joshua 13:9from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;
Joshua 13:16Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
Judges 11:26Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along the side of the Arnon for three hundred years! Why didn’t you recover them within that time?
2 Kings 10:33from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.