Dictionaries :: Araunah

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Araunah:

agile; also called Ornan 1Ch 21:15, a Jebusite who dwelt in Jerusalem before it was taken by the Israelites. The destroying angel, sent to punish David for his vanity in taking a census of the people, was stayed in his work of destruction near a threshing-floor belonging to Araunah which was situated on Mount Moriah. Araunah offered it to David as a free gift, together with the oxen and the threshing instruments; but the king insisted on purchasing it at its full price (2Sa 24:24; 1Ch 21:24,25), for, according to the law of sacrifices, he could not offer to God what cost him nothing. On the same place Solomon afterwards erected the temple (2Sa 24:16; 2Ch 3:1). (See ALTAR.)

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Araunah:

ark; song; joyful cry

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Araunah:

a-ro'-na ('arawnah, 2Sa 24:16,20 ff; ‘aranyah 2Sa 24:18, and ‘ornan, 1Ch 21:15 ff; 2Ch 3:1, all from a Hebrew root meaning "to be strong"): A Jebusite from whom David at the request of the prophet Gad bought a threshing-floor located upon Mt. Moriah, as a site for an altar of the Lord at the time of the great plague (2Sa 24:15 ff; 1Ch 21:15 ff), upon which Solomon later erected the temple (2Ch 3:1).

Nave's Topical Bible

Araunah: A Jebusite

From whom David bought a site for an altar,

2Sa 24:16-24.

Araunah: Araunah

Called also ORNAN,

1Ch 21:15-25.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Araunah:

(ark) a Jebusite who sold his threshing floor on Mount Moriah to David as a site for an altar to Jehovah, together with his oxen (2 Samuel 24:18-24; 1 Chronicles 21:25).