אַהֲרֹן
Aaron
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H175 appears in the Book of 1 Chronicles — 14 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 6:3 אַהֲרֹ֥ן אַהֲרֹ֔ן n Proper n Proper The children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
- 1 Chronicles 6:49 וְֽ/אַהֲרֹ֨ן conj + n Proper But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
- 1 Chronicles 6:50 אַהֲרֹ֑ן n Proper These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,
- 1 Chronicles 6:54 אַהֲרֹן֙ n Proper Now these are their dwelling-places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the [first] lot),
- 1 Chronicles 6:57 אַהֲרֹ֗ן n Proper To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
- 1 Chronicles 12:27 לְ/אַהֲרֹ֑ן prep + n Proper Jehoiada was the leader of [the house of] Aaron; and with him were three thousand and seven hundred,
- 1 Chronicles 15:4 אַֽהֲרֹ֖ן n Proper David gathered together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites:
- 1 Chronicles 23:13 אַהֲרֹ֣ן אַהֲרֹ֡ן n Proper n Proper The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.
- 1 Chronicles 23:28 אַהֲרֹ֗ן n Proper For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of Yahweh, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God;
- 1 Chronicles 23:32 אַהֲרֹ֖ן n Proper and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh.
- 1 Chronicles 24:1 אַהֲרֹ֖ן אַהֲרֹ֔ן n Proper n Proper Thes were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
- 1 Chronicles 24:19 אַהֲרֹ֣ן n Proper This was the ordering of them in their service, to come into the house of Yahweh according to the ordinance [given] to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him.
- 1 Chronicles 24:31 אַהֲרֹ֗ן n Proper These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers' [houses] of the chief even as those of his younger brother.
- 1 Chronicles 27:17 לְ/אַהֲרֹ֥ן prep + n Proper of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of Aaron, Zadok:
About this entry
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אהרון — transliterated ʼAhărôwn — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Aaron.” Debuting at Exodus 4:14, it then recurs through the corpus. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 327 verses — common. More than a third of its appearances fall in Exodus. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H175 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 327
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 327 distinct verses.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #143
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 143 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 327 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 327 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 285 verses · 87%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 32 verses · 10%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 10 verses · 3%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Aaron 288×, Aaron's 22×, Against aaron 6×
- American Standard Version: Aaron 300×, Against aaron 7×, Thou 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Aaron 290×, Aaron’s 34×, Shall belong to aaron 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Aaron 342×, The 9×, And 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H175 across 347 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 19 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H175 across 346 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 24 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H175 across 339 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 8 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H175 across 360 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Aaron = "light bringer"
- brother of Moses, a Levite and the first high priest
Word origin
אַהֲרֹן 346 n.pr.m. Aaron, elder brother of Moses
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of uncertain derivation
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אַהֲרוֹן
- (b. h.) Aaron, the brother of Moses. Meg. 25ᵇ; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 53 distinct written forms H175 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַהֲרֹ֖ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 9:20 | 49 |
| אַהֲרֹן֙ | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 10:6 | 35 |
| אַהֲרֹ֔ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 4:27 | 31 |
| אַהֲרֹ֗ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 7:9 | 18 |
| אַהֲרֹ֜ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 6:23 | 18 |
| אַהֲרֹ֣ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 17:10 | 18 |
| אַהֲרֹ֤ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 32:50 | 12 |
| אַהֲרֹ֧ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 27:21 | 12 |
| אַהֲרֹ֨ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 8:17 | 12 |
| אַהֲרֹ֛ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 15:20 | 11 |
| אַהֲרֹ֥ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 30:19 | 10 |
| אַהֲרֹ֑ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:50 | 9 |
| לְ/אַהֲרֹ֖ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 29:27 | 9 |
| אַהֲרֹֽן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 28:1 | 8 |
| וְ/אַהֲרֹ֔ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 5:1 | 8 |
| וְ/אַהֲרֹ֖ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 8:12 | 7 |
| לְ/אַהֲרֹ֣ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 28:2 | 6 |
| אַהֲרֹן֒ | Noun, Proper | Exodus 6:13 | 5 |
| וְ/אַהֲרֹ֣ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 19:24 | 5 |
| וְ/אַהֲרֹֽן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 6:27 | 5 |
| וְ/אַהֲרֹן֙ | Noun, Proper | Exodus 7:10 | 5 |
| וְ/אַהֲרֹ֑ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 4:29 | 4 |
| וְ/אַהֲרֹ֛ן | Noun, Proper | Numbers 4:34 | 4 |
| לְ/אַהֲרֹ֔ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 29:26 | 4 |
| אַ֠הֲרֹן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 28:29 | 3 |
| אַהֲרֹ֡ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 7:19 | 3 |
| לְ/אַהֲרֹ֥ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 28:4 | 3 |
| אַ֝הֲרֹ֗ן | Noun, Proper | Psalms 105:26 | 2 |
| וְ/אַהֲרֹ֜ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 7:20 | 2 |
| וְ/אַהֲרֹ֥ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 7:1 | 2 |
| וְ/אַהֲרֹ֨ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 17:12 | 2 |
| וּֽ/לְ/אַהֲרֹ֑ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 8:25 | 2 |
| לְ/אַהֲרֹ֨ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 29:28 | 2 |
| אַ֭הֲרֹן | Noun, Proper | Psalms 115:10 | 1 |
| אַֽהֲרֹן | Noun, Proper | Numbers 4:15 | 1 |
| אַֽהֲרֹן֙ | Noun, Proper | Exodus 32:5 | 1 |
| אַהֲרֹ֕ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 28:1 | 1 |
| אַהֲרֹן֮ | Noun, Proper | Leviticus 2:2 | 1 |
| אַֽהֲרֹ֖ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 15:4 | 1 |
| וְ/אַהֲרֹ֗ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 11:10 | 1 |
| וְ/אַהֲרֹ֤ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 7:2 | 1 |
| וְ/אַהֲרֹן֮ | Noun, Proper | Exodus 10:3 | 1 |
| וְ/אַֽהֲרֹ֔ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 7:7 | 1 |
| וְֽ/אַהֲרֹ֨ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:49 | 1 |
| וְׄ/אַׄהֲׄרֹ֛ׄןׄ | Noun, Proper | Numbers 3:39 | 1 |
| וּֽ/בְ/אַהֲרֹ֗ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 9:20 | 1 |
| וּֽ/לְ/אַהֲרֹ֔ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 9:27 | 1 |
| וּֽ/לְ/אַהֲרֹ֗ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 8:8 | 1 |
| וּֽ/לְ/אַהֲרֹ֜ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 12:31 | 1 |
| לְ/אַֽהֲרֹ֔ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 4:28 | 1 |
| לְ/אַהֲרֹ֑ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 12:27 | 1 |
| לְ/אַהֲרֹ֤ן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 29:35 | 1 |
| לְ֝/אַהֲרֹ֗ן | Noun, Proper | Psalms 106:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H175, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Aaron). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
The eldest son of Amram and Jochebed, a daughter of Levi (Ex. 6:20). Some explain the name as meaning mountaineer, others mountain of strength, illuminator. He was born in Egypt three years before his brother Moses, and a number of years after his sister Miriam (2:1, 4; 7:7). He married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab of the house of Judah (6:23; 1 Chr. 2:10), by whom he had four sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. When the time for the deliverance of Isarael out of Egypt drew nigh, he was sent by God (Ex. 4:14, 27-30) to meet his long-absent brother, that he might co-operate with him in all that they were required to do in bringing about the Exodus. He was to be the "mouth" or "prophet" of Moses, i.e., was to speak for him, because he was a man of a ready utterance (7:1, 2, 9, 10, 19). He was faithful to his trust, and stood by Moses in all his interviews with Pharaoh.
When the ransomed tribes fought their first battle with Amalek in Rephidim, Moses stood on a hill overlooking the scene of the conflict with the rod of God in his outstretched hand. On this occasion he was attended by Aaron and Hur, his sister's husband, who held up his wearied hands till Joshua and the chosen warriors of Israel gained the victory (17:8-13).
Afterwards, when encamped before Sinai, and when Moses at the command of God ascended the mount to receive the tables of the law, Aaron and his two sons, Nadab and Abihu, along with seventy of the elders of Israel, were permitted to accompany him part of the way, and to behold afar off the manifestation of the glory of Israel's God (Ex. 19:24; 24:9-11). While Moses remained on the mountain with God, Aaron returned unto the people; and yielding through fear, or ignorance, or instability of character, to their clamour, made unto them a golden calf, and set it up as an object of worship (Ex. 32:4; Ps. 106:19). On the return of Moses to the camp, Aaron was sternly rebuked by him for the part he had acted in this matter; but he interceded for him before God, who forgave his sin (Deut. 9:20).
On the mount, Moses received instructions regarding the system of worship which was to be set up among the people; and in accordance therewith Aaron and his sons were consecrated to the priest's office (Lev. 8; 9). Aaron, as high priest, held henceforth the prominent place appertaining to that office.
When Israel had reached Hazeroth, in "the wilderness of Paran," Aaron joined with his sister Miriam in murmuring against Moses, "because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married," probably after the death of Zipporah. But the Lord vindicated his servant Moses, and punished Miriam with leprosy (Num. 12). Aaron acknowledged his own and his sister's guilt, and at the intercession of Moses they were forgiven.
Twenty years after this, when the children of Israel were encamped in the wilderness of Paran, Korah, Dathan, and Abiram conspired against Aaron and his sons; but a fearful judgment from God fell upon them, and they were destroyed, and the next day thousands of the people also perished by a fierce pestilence, the ravages of which were only stayed by the interposition of Aaron (Num. 16). That there might be further evidence of the divine appointment of Aaron to the priestly office, the chiefs of the tribes were each required to bring to Moses a rod bearing on it the name of his tribe. And these, along with the rod of Aaron for the tribe of Levi, were laid up overnight in the tabernacle, and in the morning it was found that while the other rods remained unchanged, that of Aaron "for the house of Levi" budded, blossomed, and yielded almonds (Num. 17:1-10). This rod was afterwards preserved in the tabernacle (Heb. 9:4) as a memorial of the divine attestation of his appointment to the priesthood.
Aaron was implicated in the sin of his brother at Meribah (Num. 20:8-13), and on that account was not permitted to enter the Promised Land. When the tribes arrived at Mount Hor, "in the edge of the land of Edom," at the command of God Moses led Aaron and his son Eleazar to the top of that mountain, in the sight of all the people. There he stripped Aaron of his priestly vestments, and put them upon Eleazar; and there Aaron died on the top of the mount, being 123 years old (Num. 20:23-29. Comp. Deut. 10:6; 32:50), and was "gathered unto his people." The people, "even all the house of Israel," mourned for him thirty days. Of Aaron's sons two survived him, Eleazar, whose family held the high-priesthood till the time of Eli; and Ithamar, in whose family, beginning with Eli, the high-priesthood was held till the time of Solomon. Aaron's other two sons had been struck dead (Lev. 10:1, 2) for the daring impiety of offering "strange fire" on the alter of incense.
The Arabs still show with veneration the traditionary site of Aaron's grave on one of the two summits of Mount Hor, which is marked by a Mohammedan chapel. His name is mentioned in the Koran, and there are found in the writings of the rabbins many fabulous stories regarding him.
He was the first anointed priest. His descendants, "the house of Aaron," constituted the priesthood in general. In the time of David they were very numerous (1 Chr. 12:27). The other branches of the tribe of Levi held subordinate positions in connection with the sacred office. Aaron was a type of Christ in his official character as the high priest. His priesthood was a "shadow of heavenly things," and was intended to lead the people of Israel to look forward to the time when "another priest" would arise "after the order of Melchizedek" (Heb. 6:20). (See MOSES.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(a teacher, or lofty), the son of Amram and Jochebed, and the older brother of Moses and Miriam. (Numbers 26:59; 33:39) (B.C. 1573.) He was a Levite, and is first mentioned in (Exodus 4:14) He was appointed by Jehovah to be the interpreter, (Exodus 4:16) of his brother Moses, who was "slow of speech;" and accordingly he was not only the organ of communication with the Israelites and with Pharaoh, (Exodus 4:30; 7:2) but also the actual instrument of working most of the miracles of the Exodus. (Exodus 7:19) etc. On the way to Mount Sinai, during the battle with Amalek, Aaron with Hur stayed up the weary hands of Moses when they were lifted up for the victory of Israel. (Exodus 17:9) He is mentioned as dependent upon his brother and deriving all his authority from him. Left, on Moses' departure into Sinai, to guide the people, Aaron is tried for a moment on his own responsibility, and he fails from a weak inability to withstand the demand of the people for visible "gods to go before them," by making an image of Jehovah, in the well-known form of Egyptian idolatry (Apis or Mnevis). He repented of his sin, and Moses gained forgiveness for him. (9:20) Aaron was not consecrated by Moses to the new office of the high priesthood. (Exodus 29:9) From this time the history of Aaron is almost entirely that of the priesthood, and its chief feature is the great rebellion of Korah and the Levites. Leaning, as he seems to have done, wholly on Moses, it is not strange that he should have shared his sin at Meribah and its punishment. See Moses. (Numbers 20:10-12) Aaron's death seems to have followed very speedily. It took place on Mount Hor, after the transference of his robes and office to Eleazar. (Numbers 20:28) This mount is still called the "Mountain of Aaron." See Hor. The wife of Aaron was Elisheba, (Exodus 6:23) and the two sons who survived him, Eleazar and Ithamar. The high priesthood descended to the former, and to his descendants until the time of Eli, who, although of the house of Ithamar, received the high priesthood and transmitted it to his children; with them it continued till the accession of Solomon, who took it from Abiathar and restored it to Zadok (of the house of Eleazar). See Abiathar.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
a teacher; lofty; mountain of strength
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 312 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 327 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Exodus 4:14
- Leviticus 1:5
- Numbers 1:3
- Deuteronomy 9:20
- Joshua 21:4
- Judges 20:28
- 1 Samuel 12:6
- 1 Chronicles 6:3
- 2 Chronicles 13:9
- Ezra 7:5
- Psalms 77:20
- Micah 6:4
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
