aravna · Araunah

What it means

aravna (אֲרַוְנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Araunah”.

A Jebusite, owner of the threshing floor at Jerusalem that David bought to build an altar to YHWH (2 Samuel 24). In 1 Chronicles 21 he is called Ornan. The temple was later built in that place (2 Chronicles 3:1).

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.

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel 24:16

  When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, YHWH relented concerning the evil and said to the angel who was destroying among the people, “Enough! Now withdraw your hand.” And the angel of YHWH was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

• 2 Samuel 24:18

  Gad came to David on that day and said to him, “Go up, raise an altar to YHWH on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

• 2 Samuel 24:20

  Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants coming over toward him; and Araunah went out and bowed down to the king with his face to the ground.

• 2 Samuel 24:21

  Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy from you the threshing floor, to build an altar to YHWH, so that the plague may be stopped from the people.”

• 2 Samuel 24:22

  Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his eyes. See, the oxen for the burnt offering, and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

• 2 Samuel 24:23

  All this Araunah gives, O king, to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May YHWH your Elohim accept you.”

• 2 Samuel 24:24

  The king said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; and I will not offer up to YHWH my Elohim burnt offerings for nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

And 2 more times.