rnan · Ornan

What it means

rnan (אׇרְנָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Ornan”.

The Jebusite who owned the threshing floor where David built the altar, at the place where the house of YHWH was later built (2 Chronicles 3:1). In 2 Samuel 24 he is called Araunah.

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

• 1 Chronicles×11
• 2 Chronicles×1

• 1 Chronicles 21:15

  Elohim sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; and as he was destroying it, YHWH saw and relented concerning the evil, and said to the angel who was destroying, “Enough! Now drop your hand.” And the angel of YHWH was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• 1 Chronicles 21:18

  The angel of YHWH said to Gad to tell David that David should go up to set up an altar to YHWH on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• 1 Chronicles 21:20

  Ornan turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

• 1 Chronicles 21:21

  David came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David, and he went out from the threshing floor and bowed down to David with his face to the ground.

• 1 Chronicles 21:22

  David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of the threshing floor, that I may build on it an altar to YHWH. Give it to me for the full price, so that the plague may be held back from the people.”

• 1 Chronicles 21:23

  Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. Look, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering; all of it I give.”

• 1 Chronicles 21:24

  King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will certainly buy it for the full price; for I will not take what is yours for YHWH, nor offer a burnt offering for nothing.”

• 1 Chronicles 21:25

  David gave Ornan for the site six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

• 1 Chronicles 21:28

  At that time, when David saw that YHWH had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.

• 2 Chronicles 3:1

  Solomon began to build the house of YHWH in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where he had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had prepared, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

And 2 more times.