Lexical Summary Arad: a Canaanite city in the Negev Original Word: עֲרָדTransliteration: Arad Phonetic Spelling: (ar-awd') Part of Speech: verb; proper name, of a location; proper name, masculine Short Definition: a Canaanite city in the Negev Meaning: Arad -- a Canaanite city in the Negev Strong's Concordance Arad From an unused root meaning to sequester itself; fugitive; Arad, the name of a place near Palestine, also of a Canaanite and an Israelite -- Arad. Brown-Driver-Briggs H6166. Arad [עָרַג] verb long for (compare Arabic ascend, II. bend, incline toward (); high, elevated; Ethiopic ascend; Late Hebrew עֲרוּגָה = Biblical Hebrew); — Qal Imperfect3feminine singular תַּעֲרֹג Psalm 42:2 (of stag, with עַל of thing in simile); with אֶל, of longing for God 42:2 (subject נַפְשִׁי), so תַּעֲרוֺג Joel 1:20 (of beasts, craving water). I. עֲרָד proper name, of a location Canaanite city in the Negeb, Αραδ (Egyptian ±a-ru-dâ WMM As.u.Eur.168, 170); — Judges 1:16, ׳מֶלֶחעֿ Numbers 21:1 (JE) = 33:40, Joshua 12:14 (D, Α(ι)ραθ, A ᵐ5L Αδερ); probably modern Tel Arad, 16 2-Janmiles south of Hebron; compare GFM Judges 1:16 Buhl Geogr. 182. II. עֲרָד proper name, masculine Benjamite 1 Chronicles 8:15, Ωρηρ, A Αρωδ, ᵐ5L Αραδ. |