top Αρ- names
Ἀρά
  • Meaning: Ara, Eder
  • Note: Eder: A city within the territory of Judah (Josh 15:21)
  • Note: Ara: Son of Jether (1Chron 7:38)
Ἁραά, Ἀραά
Ἀραάβ
  • Meaning: Haraab
  • Note: Proper noun found only in LXX (1Chron 24:31)
Ἀραάς
  • Meaning: Harhas
  • Note: Father of Tikvah (2Kings 22:14)
Ἀραβί
  • Meaning: Arab
  • Note: (Neh 2:19)
Ἀραβία
Ἀραβική
Ἀράβισσα
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Fem
  • Meaning: Arabian woman
  • Note: Female Arabian (Job 42:17c)
  • Forms:
Ἀραβώθ
  • Meaning: Aruboth, Araboth
  • Note: One of the 12 districts from which victuals for Solomon's household were obtained (1Kings 4:10)
  • Note: Transliteration of meaning plain, gorge (Num 26:3)
Ἀραβωθίτης
Ἀράδ
  • Meaning: Ard, Hadar
  • Note: Hadar: King of Edom after Baal-Hanan (Gen 36:39)
  • Note: Ard: Son of Benjamin (Gen 46:21)
  • Note: Arad: King of southern Canaan who fought Israel (Num 21:1)
  • Note: Arad: Place in the south of Canaan (Num 33:40)
  • Note: Arad: in Num 34:4 LXX, but MT is Hazar Addar
  • Note: Harod: name of a well (Judg 7:1)
  • Note: Arad: Place equivalent to Syria (Judg 10:6)
Ἀράδιος
Ἀράδος
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Aradus
  • Note: City on the coast of Phoenicia (1Macc 15:23)
  • Forms:
Ἀραήλ
  • Meaning: Ramah, Arael
  • Note: City in the territory of Naphtali (Josh 19:36)
Ἀράθ
  • Meaning: Arad
  • Note: City conquered by Joshua (Josh 12:14)
Ἀραΐ
  • Meaning: Arai, Sharar
  • Note: Father of Ahiam
  • Concord: 2Sam 23:33
Ἀραία
  • Meaning: Seraiah, Saraia
  • Note: Priest who endorsed Nehemiah's covenant (Neh 10:3)
Ἀράμ
  • Meaning: Ram
  • Note: Ram: Son of Hezron and grandfather of Amminadab (Luke 3:33)
  • Note: Ram: Son of Hezron and father of Amminadab (1Chron 2:10)
  • Note: Aram: Son of Shem (Gen 10:22)
  • Note: Aran: Father of Dishan (Gen 36:28)
  • Note: Aram: Son of Shemer (1Chron 7:34)
  • Note: Syria: English has "Syria" for where LXX has Ἀράμ (1Chron 2:23; Isa 7:1,2,5,8)
Ἀραμά
  • Meaning: Ramah
  • Note: City assigned to Naphtali (Ezra 2:26)
Ἀραμίν
  • Meaning: Aramaean
  • Note: Alternate term for Syrian (2Kings 9:16)
Ἀραμώθ
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Aramoth
  • Note: Son of Joktan (1Chron 1:20)
Ἀράν
  • Meaning: Oren
  • Note: Son of Jerahmeel (1Chron 2:25)
Ἀραουρίτης
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Hararite
  • Note: Family name of Sharar (2Sam 23:33)
Ἀραράθ
  • Meaning: Ararat, Armenia
  • Note: A district of Armenia (Jer 51:27)
  • Note: Mountain range where Noah's ark rested (Gen 8:4)
  • Note: Assassins of Sennacherib take refuge in Ararat (2Kings 19:37; Isa 37:38)
  • Note: The text in LXX substitutes Armenia for Ararat in Isa 37:38
Ἀραράτ
  • Meaning: Ararat
  • Note: A district of Armenia (Jer 51:27)
  • Note: Mountain range where Noah's ark rested (Gen 8:4)
  • Note: Assassins of Sennacherib take refuge in Ararat (2Kings 19:37; Isa 37:38)
  • Note: The text in LXX substitutes Armenia for Ararat in Isa 37:38
Ἀραρί
  • Meaning: Hararite
  • Note: Hararite: Native of the hill country of Judah (1Chron 11:34)
  • Note: Aroerite: Native of Aroer (1Chron 11:44)
Ἀραρών
  • Meaning: Aaron
  • Note: Eldest son of Amram and Jochebed; brother of Moses and Miriam
  • Concord: Num 1:54; 26:59; 33:39
Ἀράς
  • Meaning: Hasrah
  • Note: Father of Tikvath
  • Concord: 2Chron 34:22
Ἀραχί
  • Meaning: Archite
  • Note: usual designation of Hushai a native of Archi (2Sam 17:5)
  • Forms:
Ἄραψ
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Arab, Arabian
  • Note: Arab: Nomadic Semitic people from the northern and central Arabian Peninsula. May refer to anyone in the Middle East except the Jews
  • Note: Arabah: An area south of the Dead Sea (Deut 1:7)
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Ἀρβάττοις
  • Meaning: Arbatta, Arbattis
  • Note: A district in the area of Galilee (1Macc 5:23)
Ἀρβεσεέρ
  • Meaning: Arbeseer
  • Note: English is Regem-Melech (Zech 7:2)
Ἄρβηλα
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Plur Neut
  • Meaning: Arbela
  • Note: Arbela: A city of Galilee (1Macc 9:2)
  • Note: Riblah: ancient town on the northern frontier of Palestine (Num 34:11)
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Ἀρβό
  • Meaning: Arba
  • Note: City in the hill country of the territory of Judah (Josh 15:54)
Ἀρβόκ
  • Meaning: Arba
  • Note: City in the hill country of the territory of Judah (Josh 15:54). Also called Kirjath Arba and later called Hebron
  • Note: Arba was the father of Anak (Josh 15:13) and the founder of the city Arba
Ἀργόβ
  • Meaning: Argob
  • Note: A mesa 48 km by 32 km rising 10 metres above the tableland of Bashan where there were 60 walled cities governed by Og (Deut 3:4). Called Trachonitis in the NT (Luke 3:1)
  • Note: An officer of Pekahiah who killed him (2Kings 15:25)
Ἀρέ
  • Meaning: Harim
  • Note: the head of a priestly house in the days of Joiakim
  • Concord: Neh 12:15
Ἀρεββά
  • Meaning: Rabbah
  • Note: city in the hill country of Judah (Josh 15:60 Alex)
Ἀρέε
  • Meaning: Ares
  • Note: Ancestor of 756 people who were led out of captivity (1Esdras 5:10)
Ἀρεηλείς
  • Meaning: Areli
  • Note: Son of Gad (Gen 46:16)
Ἄρειος
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Arius
  • Note: A king of Sparta (309-265 BC) who wrote the letter to Onias, the high priest (1Macc 12:7)
  • Forms:
Ἄρειος πάγος
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Areopagus, Hill of Mars
  • Note: A place of justice on an outdoor hill west of the Acropolis (Acts 17:22-31)
  • Forms:
Ἀρέμ
  • Meaning: Arem
  • Note: the head of a priestly house in the days of Joiakim (Neh 12:15)
Ἀρεοπαγίτης
  • Meaning: Areopagite
  • Note: Member or judge of the court of Areopagus (Acts 17:34)
Ἀρές, Ἄρες
  • Meaning: Heres
  • Note: the place from which Gideon returned to Succoth after his defeat of Zebah and Zalmunna (Judg 8:13)
  • Meaning: Arah
  • Note: leader of 775 who came out of captivity (Ezra 2:5)
Ἀρέτας
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Aretas
  • Note: Father-in-law of Herod Antipas (2Cor 11:32)
  • Note: Arabian king, who was a contemporary of Antiochus Epiphanes (circa 170 BC), before whom Jason the high priest was accused (2Macc 5:8)
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Ἀρημά
  • Meaning: Arumah
  • Note: The town in which Abimelech, the son of Gideon, dwelt when driven from Shechem (Judg 9:41)
Ἀρημώθ
  • Meaning: Ramoth
  • Note: City east of the Jordan in the territory of Gad (Josh 20:8)
Ἀρής
  • Meaning: Heresh
  • Note: (1Chron 9:15)
Ἀρησά
  • Meaning: Harsha
  • Note: Family of Nethinim who came out of Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:52)
Ἀρθασασθά
  • Meaning: Artaxerxes
  • Note: king who obstructed the rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 5:7)
Ἀρία
  • Meaning: Arieh
  • Note: One of those with Argob who killed killed Pekahiah (2Kings 15:25)
Ἀριαράθης
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Ariarathe, Arathes
  • Note: King of Cappadocia, 163-130 BC (1Macc 15:22)
  • Forms:
Ἀριήλ
  • Meaning: Ariel
  • Note: Ariel: Symbolic name for Jerusalem (Isa 15:9)
  • Note: Areli: Son of Gad (Num 26:26)
  • Note: Ariel: Transliteration of meaning lion-like, heroic (2Sam 23:20)
  • Note: Ariel: One of the leaders under Ezra (Ezra 8:16)
Ἀριηλί
  • Meaning: Arelite
  • Note: Descendant of Areli (Num 26:26)
Ἀρίμ
  • Meaning: Horem
  • Note: Horem: City in the territory of Naphtali (Josh 19:38)
  • Note: Hareph: father of Beth Gader (1Chron 2:51)
Ἀριμά
  • Meaning: Arumah
  • Note: The town in which Abimelech, the son of Gideon, dwelt when driven from Shechem (Judg 9:41)
Ἀριμαθαία
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Fem
  • Meaning: Arimathea
  • Note: A town NW of Jerusalem (John )
  • Forms:
Ἀριμώθ
  • Meaning: Jerimoth
  • Note: Jeremoth: son of Beriah (1Chron 8:16)
Ἀρίσταρχος
Ἀριστέαν
  • Parse: Name
  • Meaning: Aristeas
Ἀριστέας
  • Parse: Name
  • Meaning: Arissteas
Ἀριστείδης
  • Meaning: Aristides
  • Note: Aristides of Athens, 2nd century Christian author (Quadratus)
Ἀριστίων
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Aristion
  • Note: Second name given to John to distinguish him from John the Apostle (Pap 3:5)
  • Forms:
Ἀριστοβούλος
Ἀρισώθ
  • Meaning: Harosheth
  • Note: Place from which Sisera came to fight Deborah and Barak (Judg 4:2)
Ἀρίφ
  • Meaning: Hariph
  • Note: One of the leaders of the people who endorsed Nehemiah's covenant (Neh 10:20)
Ἀρίφος
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Ariphus
  • Note: Ancestor of 112 who were led out of captivity (1Esdras 5:16)
  • Forms:
Ἀριωργίμ
  • Meaning: Jaare-Oregim
  • Note: Father of Elhanan (2Sam 21:19)
Ἀριώχ
  • Meaning: Arioch
  • Note: King of Ellasar who made war against Sodom, Gomorrah and other states (Gen 14:1-9)
  • Note: Captain of the bodyguard of King Nebuchadnezzar (Dan 2:14,25)
  • Note: King of the Elymeans (Judith 1:6)
Ἀριώχης
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Arioch
  • Note: Vassal king of Ellasar, under Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Amraphel
  • Note: Captain of the bodyguard of King Nebuchadnezzar (Dan 2:14)
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Ἀρκαδία
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Fem
  • Meaning: Arcadia (mountains)
  • Note: (Hermas Parable 9:1:4)
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Ἀρκεσαιός
  • Meaning: Carshena
  • Note: One of the seven princes of Persia and Media under Ahasuerus (Est 1:14)
Ἀρκτοῦρος
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Arcturus
  • Note: The brightest star in the Bootes constellation (Job 9:9)
  • Forms:
Ἁρμαγεδδών
  • Parse: Noun: Neut
  • Meaning: Armageddon
  • Note: Place of the final battle on "the mount of Megiddo" (Rev 16:16)
  • Forms:
Ἀρμαθαίμ
  • Meaning: Ramathaim, Ramah
  • Note: Ramathaim-Zophim: Town of Mount Ephraim (1Sam 1:1)
Ἀρμαί
  • Meaning: Adami
  • Note: Town in the territory of Naphtali (Josh 19:33)
Ἀρμαίθ
  • Meaning: Adamah
  • Note: City in the territory of Naphtali (Josh 19:36)
Ἀρμὲ καὶ Ναβώκ
  • Meaning: Adami-Nekeb
  • Note: City in the territory of Naphtali (Josh 19:33)
  • Hebrew:
Ἀρμενία
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Fem
  • Meaning: Armenian
  • Note: A country in western Asia lying between the Caspian and the Black Sea (Isa 37:38)
  • Forms:
Ἀρμώθ
  • Meaning: Jeremoth
  • Note: Son of Zattu who promised to put away his pagan wife
  • Concord: Ezra 10:27
Ἀρνά, Ἀρνᾶ
  • Meaning: Sargon, Arna
  • Note: King of the Assyrians (Isa 20:1)
Ἀρναφάρ
  • Meaning: Harnepher
  • Note: Son of Zophah (1Chron 7:36)
Ἀρνί
  • Meaning: Ram, Arni
  • Note: Son of Hezron and father of Admin (Luke 3:33)
Ἀρνών
  • Meaning: Arnon
  • Note: River forming the southern boundary of Israel and Moab (Jer 48:20)
Ἀροαδί
  • Meaning: Arod
  • Note: Son of Gad (Num 26:26)
Ἀροηδείς
  • Meaning: Arodi
  • Note: Son of Gad (Gen 46:16)
Ἀροηδίς
  • Meaning: Arodi
  • Note: Son of Gad (Gen 46:16)
Ἀροηλίς
  • Meaning: Areli
  • Note: Son of Gad (Gen 46:16)
Ἀροήρ
  • Meaning: Aroer
  • Note: Aroer: Town on north bank of the Arnon about 21 km west of the Dead Sea (Deut 4:48)
  • Note: Aroer: Town built by tribe of Gad (Num 32:34)
  • Note: Aroer: City in the south of Judah about 19 km SE of Beersheba (1Sam 30:26)
  • Note: Ar: Moab city on the border of the Arnon (Deut 2:29)
Ἀρόμ
  • Meaning: Arom
  • Note: Ancestor of some who led others out of captivity (1Esdras 5:16)
Ἀρουδαῖος
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Harodite
  • Note: Family name of Shammah (2Sam 23:25)
Ἀρουήλ
  • Meaning: Adadah
  • Note: A city within the territory of Judah (Josh 15:22)
Ἁρουκαῖος
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Arkite
  • Note: Descendants of Phoenicians or Sidonians; demonym of Arka, 20 km north of Tripoli (Gen 10:17; 1Chron 1:15)
  • Forms:
Ἀρούρ
  • Meaning: Harhur
  • Note: Family of Nethinim who came out of Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:51)
Ἀρούς, Ἀροῦς
  • Meaning: Haruz
  • Note: Father of Meshullemeth (2Kings 21:19)
Ἀρουφαίος
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Arisai
  • Note: One of the ten sons of Haman (Est 9:9)
  • Forms:
Ἀρουχαῖος
  • Meaning: Hararite
  • Note: inhabitant of the hill country of Judah (2Sam 23:11)
Ἀρράν
  • Meaning: Haran
  • Note: Son of Caleb and Ephah (1Chron 2:46); father of Gazez
  • Note: Haran: Son of Terah (Gen 11:26)
  • Note: Ram: Son of Hezron and father of Amminadab (Ruth 4:19)
  • Note: Aran: Son of Dishan (1Chron 1:42)
Ἀρσά
  • Meaning: Harsha
  • Note: Family of Nethinim who came out of Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:52)
Ἀρσαῖος
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Aridai
  • Note: One of the ten sons of Haman (Est 9:9)
  • Forms:
Ἀρσάκης
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Arsaces
  • Note: Common name of all the Parthian kings (1Macc 14:2)
  • Forms:
Ἄρσαμος
  • Parse: Name
  • Meaning: Arsamos
Ἀρσεναΐν
  • Meaning: Hazar Enan
Ἀρσινόη
Ἀρσωλά
  • Meaning: Hazar Shual
  • Note: City in the territory of Simeon (Josh 19:3)
Ἁρσών
  • Meaning: Hezron, Arson, Esrom
  • Note: Hezron: Son of Perez (1Chron 2:5)
  • Note: Hezron: son of Reuben (1Chron 5:3)
Ἀρταξέρξης
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Artaxerxes
  • Note: King who obstructed rebuilding of temple (Ezra 4:7). Probably Smerdis
  • Note: King who allowed Ezra to lead Jews back to Jerusalem (Ezra 7:1). Probably Longimanus
  • Forms:
Ἀρτασασθά
  • Meaning: Tirshatha
  • Note: Governor Nehemiah
  • Concord: Neh 10:1
Ἀρτεμᾶς
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Artemas
  • Note: Christian messenger for Paul (Titus 3:12)
  • Forms:
Ἄρτεμις
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Fem
  • Meaning: Artemis, Diana
  • Note: Greek goddess Artemis; Roman name Diana (Acts 19:24)
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Ἀρφάδ
  • Meaning: Arpad
  • Note: city of Syria, captured frequently by the Assyrians, and finally subjugated by Tiglath-pileser III in 740 BC (Jer 49:23)
Ἀρφάθ
  • Meaning: Arpad
  • Note: Syrian city near Hamath (Isa 37:13)
Ἀρφαξάδ
  • Meaning: Arphaxad
  • Note: Son of Shem (Gen 10:22, 24; 11:10) and father of Cainan (Luke 3:36)
  • Note: King who reigned over the Medes in Ecbatana (Judith 1:1-4); possibly Phraortes who died in battle with the Assyrians in 633BC
Ἀρχαβίν, Ἀρχαβείν
  • Meaning: Rechabite
  • Note: Descendant of Rechab (Jer 35:2)
Ἀρχάδ
  • Meaning: Accad
  • Note: A kingdom started by Nimrod (Gen 10:10)
Ἀρχέλαος
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Archelaus, lit., leader of the people
  • Note: Lit. "leader of the people"; Son of Herod the Great and Malthace, a Samaritan woman (Matt 2:22)
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Ἀρχί
  • Meaning: Archite
  • Note: designation of Hushai a native of Archi (2Sam 15:32)
Ἄρχιππος
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Archippus
  • Note: Co-worker with Paul; member of Philemon's family (Col 4:17; Philemon 1:2)
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Ἀρχυαῖος
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Erech, Archyaean
  • Note: Tribe of those who opposed the Jews (Ezra 4:9)
  • Forms:
Ἀρχώβ
  • Meaning: Archob, Ummah
  • Note: City in territory of Asher (Josh 19:30)
Ἀρωδαῖος
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Harodite
  • Note: Family name of Elica (2Sam 23:25)
Ἀρωδίτης
  • Parse: Noun: Nom Sing Masc
  • Meaning: Hararite
  • Note: Family name of Shammah (2Sam 23:33)
Ἀρωέδ
  • Meaning: Harod
  • Note: Name of a well (Judg 7:1)
Ἀρώθ
  • Meaning: Aroth
  • Note: Place mentioned only in LXX (Ezra 2:33)
Ἀρωνί
  • Meaning: Horonite
  • Note: Appellation of Sanballat, possibly a demonym of Beth-Horon (Neh 2:10)
Ἀρωνιίμ, Ἀρωνιείμ
  • Meaning: Horonaim
  • Note: City of Moab south of the Arnon river (Isa 15:5)
Ἀρωρί
  • Meaning: Harorite
  • Note: Family name of Shammoth (1Chron 11:27)