אַרְנוֹן
Arnon
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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 H769 appears — 23 distinct verses across 7 books. 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.
Numbers 6 verses
- Numbers 21:13 אַרְנוֹן֙ אַרְנוֹן֙ n Proper n Proper From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
- Numbers 21:14 אַרְנֽוֹן n Proper Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, Vaheb in Suphah, The valleys of the Arnon,
- Numbers 21:24 מֵֽ/אַרְנֹ֗ן prep + n Proper Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
- Numbers 21:26 אַרְנֹֽן n Proper For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.
- Numbers 21:28 אַרְנֹֽן n Proper For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon: It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
- Numbers 22:36 אַרְנֹ֔ן n Proper When Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.
Deuteronomy 6 verses
- Deuteronomy 2:24 אַרְנֹן֒ n Proper Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
- Deuteronomy 2:36 אַרְנֹ֜ן n Proper From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and [from] the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all before us:
- Deuteronomy 3:8 אַרְנֹ֖ן n Proper We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon;
- Deuteronomy 3:12 אַרְנֹ֗ן n Proper This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities of it, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites:
- Deuteronomy 3:16 אַרְנֹ֔ן n Proper To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border [of it], even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
- Deuteronomy 4:48 אַרְנֹ֛ן n Proper from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon),
Joshua 4 verses
- Joshua 12:1 אַרְנוֹן֙ n Proper Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
- Joshua 12:2 אַרְנ֜וֹן n Proper Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and [the city that is in] the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
- Joshua 13:9 אַרְנ֜וֹן n Proper from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;
- Joshua 13:16 אַרְנ֜וֹן n Proper Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
Judges 4 verses
- Judges 11:13 מֵ/אַרְנ֥וֹן prep + n Proper The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably.
- Judges 11:18 אַרְנ֑וֹן אַרְנ֖וֹן n Proper n Proper Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn't come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.
- Judges 11:22 מֵֽ/אַרְנוֹן֙ prep + n Proper They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.
- Judges 11:26 אַרְנ֔וֹן n Proper While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; why didn't you recover them within that time?
2 Kings 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
Jeremiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
ארנון — transliterated ʼArnôwn — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Arnon.” Debuting at Numbers 21:13, it then recurs through the corpus. It appears 23 verses across 7 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Numbers. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H769 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 →
- 23
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 23 distinct verses.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,282
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,282 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 23 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 6 verses 26%
- Deuteronomy 6 verses 26%
- Joshua 4 verses 17%
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 23 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 12 verses · 52%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 11 verses · 48%
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: Arnon 24×
- American Standard Version: Arnon 24×
- Berean Standard Bible: Arnon 23×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Arnon 24×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H769 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H769 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H769 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H769 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- Arnon = "rushing stream"
- a river and surrounding valley in south Palestine, forms the border between Moab and the Amorites
Word origin
n.pr.fl. Arnon, wady & stream in Moab (MI ארנן, Thes Add Rob Ges MV der. from רנן, i.e. the rushing, roaring stream)—אַרְנוֹן Nu 21:13(×2), 14 + 12 times, אַרְנֹן Nu 21:28 + 10 times—called boundary between Moab & Amorites Nu 21:13 Ju 11:18, 22 cf. גְּבוּל אַרְנֹן Nu 22:36; often נַחַל אַרְנֹן Dt 2:24, 36; 3:8, 12, 16; 4:48; 2 K 10:33; נ׳ אַרְנוֹן Jos 12:1, 2; 13:9, 16; הַנְּחָלִים אַרְנוֹן Nu 21:14; i.e. the stream-ravines that unite to form Arnon, cf. Di: also בַּמוֹת אַרְנֹן heights of Arnon Nu 21:28; מעברות אַרְנוֹן fords of Arnon Is 16:2; elsewhere Nu 21:13, 24, 26; Ju 11:13, 18, 26; syn. of Moab Je 48:20; (cf. TristrMoab 125 f.; mod. Môjib)
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רנן (rânan) (H7442) — to shout.
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.
ארנון
- , Tanḥ. B’midb. 18, read אָקְטוֹ, v. אָכְטָא
*אַרְנוֹן I
- (deriv. of אָרוֹן) chest with many cases, trader’s chest. Tanḥ. B’midb. 20 לאדם פרגמטיוטיס שהיה לו א׳ של זכוכית Ar. (ed. incorr.) like a trader that had a chest containing (common) glass beads; cmp. Tanḥ. ed. Bub. 23ᵃ. note; Yalk. Num. 692 (where אבנים must be read ארנון).
אַרְנוֹן II
- (an adaptation of annona, cmp. אַנּוֹנָא a. טַסְקָא) [chest, treasury, v. preced.] tax from crops and other farmer’s produces delivered in kind. Y. Keth. XIII, 35ᵈ א׳ גולגולת annona and poll-tax.—Pes. 6ᵃ בהמת א׳ cattle subject to the annona (v. D. C. ed. Hensch, s. v. Annona: ‘capitur etiam in pecudibus’); עיסת א׳ dough made of flour subject to annona.—Pl. אַרְנוֹנוֹת, אַרְנוֹנִיּוֹת, אַרְנוֹנִין. Targ. Y. Deut. XXVIII, 36. Lev. R. s. 29. Y. Shebi. IV, 35ᵇ; a. fr.—Y. Snh. III, 21ᵇ top מיגבי ארנונין to collect taxes Pesik. Shek. 11ᵇ (description of Roman extortions) אייתי ארנונֵיךְ bring thy annonae
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 18 distinct written forms H769 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַרְנ֜וֹן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 12:2 | 3 |
| אַרְנֹ֔ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 3:16 | 3 |
| אַרְנוֹן֙ | Noun, Proper | Joshua 12:1 | 3 |
| אַרְנֹֽן | Noun, Proper | Numbers 21:26 | 2 |
| אַרְנ֑וֹן | Noun, Proper | Judges 11:18 | 1 |
| אַרְנ֔וֹן | Noun, Proper | Judges 11:26 | 1 |
| אַרְנ֖וֹן | Noun, Proper | Judges 11:18 | 1 |
| אַרְנֹ֖ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 3:8 | 1 |
| אַרְנֹ֗ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 3:12 | 1 |
| אַרְנֹ֛ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 4:48 | 1 |
| אַרְנֹ֜ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 2:36 | 1 |
| אַרְנֹן֒ | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 2:24 | 1 |
| אַרְנֽוֹן | Noun, Proper | Numbers 21:14 | 1 |
| בְ/אַרְנ֔וֹן | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 48:20 | 1 |
| לְ/אַרְנֽוֹן | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 16:2 | 1 |
| מֵ/אַרְנ֥וֹן | Noun, Proper | Judges 11:13 | 1 |
| מֵֽ/אַרְנֹ֗ן | Noun, Proper | Numbers 21:24 | 1 |
| מֵֽ/אַרְנוֹן֙ | Noun, Proper | Judges 11:22 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H769, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- רן rôn H7438 ringing cry
- רנה rinnâh H7440 cry
- רנן renen H7443 ostrich
- רנן rannên H7444 shout
- רננה rᵉnânâh H7445 ringing cry
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 → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Arnon). 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
Swift, the southern boundary of the territory of Israel beyond Jordan, separating it from the land of Moab (Deut. 3:8, 16). This river (referred to twenty-four times in the Bible) rises in the mountains of Gilead, and after a circuitous course of about 80 miles through a deep ravine it falls into the Dead Sea nearly opposite Engedi. The stream is almost dry in summer. It is now called el-Mujeb. The territory of the Amorites extended from the Arnon to the Jabbok.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(roaring), the river or torrent which formed the boundary between Moab and the Amorites, on the north of Moab, (Numbers 21:13,14,24,26; Judges 11:22) and afterwards between Moab and Israel (Reuben). (2:24,36; 3:8,12,16; 4:48; Joshua 12:1,2; 13:9,16; Judges 11:13,26) There can be no doubt that the Wady el-Mojeb of the present day is the Arnon. Its principal source is near Katrane, on the Haj route.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
rejoicing; sunlight
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 22 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 23 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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