arnon · Arnon

What it means

arnon (אַרְנוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Arnon”.

A river east of the Jordan that marked the border of Moab. The name means "roaring stream."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×7
• Deuteronomy×6
• Joshua×4
• Judges×5
• 2 Kings×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Numbers 21:13

  From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the territory of the Amorite; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorite.

• Numbers 21:14

  Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of YHWH: “Waheb in Suphah, and the brooks of the Arnon,

• Numbers 21:24

  And Israel struck him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon; for the border of the sons of Ammon was strong.

• Numbers 21:26

  For Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, and he had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon.

• Numbers 21:28

  For fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon; it consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of the Arnon.

• Numbers 22:36

  When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is at the edge of the territory.

• Deuteronomy 2:24

  “Rise up, set out, and cross the Wadi Arnon. See, I have given into your hand Sihon, the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and provoke him to war.

• Deuteronomy 2:36

  From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, and the city that is in the wadi, as far as Gilead, there was not a town that was too high for us; YHWH our Elohim delivered all of them before us.

• Deuteronomy 3:8

  So at that time we took the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon

• Deuteronomy 3:12

  This land we took possession of at that time. From Aroer, which is by the Wadi Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

• Deuteronomy 3:16

  To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead as far as the Wadi Arnon, the middle of the wadi as the border, and as far as the Wadi Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;

• Deuteronomy 4:48

  from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, as far as Mount Siyon, that is, Hermon,

• Joshua 12:1

  Now these are the kings of the land whom the sons of Israel struck and whose land they took possession of beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, from the brook Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah to the east:

• Joshua 12:2

  Sihon king of the Amorite, who lived in Heshbon, ruling from Aroer, which is on the edge of the brook Arnon, and the middle of the brook, and half of Gilead, as far as the brook Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;

• Joshua 13:9

  from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the brook, and all the plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon;

• Joshua 13:16

  And their territory was from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the brook, and all the plateau by Medeba;

• Judges 11:13

  The king of the sons of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took my land when it came up from Egypt, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore return them in peace.”

• Judges 11:18

  Then he went through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came from the rising of the sun to the land of Moab, and they camped beyond the Arnon; and they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

• Judges 11:22

  They took possession of all the territory of the Amorite, from the Arnon to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness to the Jordan.

• Judges 11:26

  While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are along the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them at that time?

• 2 Kings 10:33

  from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the wadi Arnon, both Gilead and Bashan.

• Isaiah 16:2

  And it will be like a wandering bird, a nest cast out: the daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.

• Jeremiah 48:20

  Moab is put to shame, for it is dismayed; wail and cry out! Declare in the Arnon that Moab is devastated.

And 2 more times.