אׇרְנָן
Ornan
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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 H771 appears in the Book of 1 Chronicles — 9 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 21:15 אָרְנָ֥ן n Proper God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 1 Chronicles 21:18 אָרְנָ֥ן n Proper Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David, that David should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 1 Chronicles 21:20 אָרְנָ֗ן וְ/אָרְנָ֖ן n Proper conj + n Proper Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
- 1 Chronicles 21:21 אָרְנָ֑ן אָרְנָן֙ n Proper n Proper As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
- 1 Chronicles 21:22 אָרְנָ֗ן n Proper Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh: for the full price shall you give it me, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
- 1 Chronicles 21:23 אָרְנָ֤ן n Proper Ornan said to David, Take it to you, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: behold, I give [you] the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal-offering; I give it all.
- 1 Chronicles 21:24 לְ/אָרְנָ֔ן prep + n Proper King David said to Ornan, No; but I will most assuredly buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is your for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt-offering without cost.
- 1 Chronicles 21:25 לְ/אָרְנָ֖ן prep + n Proper So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
- 1 Chronicles 21:28 אָרְנָ֣ן n Proper At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
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.
At its core, ארנן (ʼOrnân) means “Ornan.” The word gravitates to 1 Chronicles (90%), then 2 Chronicles. It appears 10 verses across 2 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. First canonically at 1 Chronicles 21:15, it enters the text early. Dig into 10-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H771 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 →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,101
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 9 verses 90%
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 10%
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 10 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 10 verses · 100%
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: Ornan 11×
- American Standard Version: Ornan 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ornan 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ornan 12×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H771 across 12 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 H771 across 12 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 H771 across 11 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H771 across 12 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.
- Ornan = "light was perpetuated: their fir trees"
- a Jebusite who sold, to David, a threshing floor for an altar
Word origin
n.pr.m. a Jebusite, whose threshing-floor was bought by David to erect an altar 1 Ch 21:15, 18, 20(×2), 21(×2), 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, & according to 2 Ch 3:1 became site of temple; called אֲרַוְנָה 2 S 24:16 f. q.v.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ארן (ʼôren) (H766) — fir tree.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H771 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אָרְנָ֥ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 21:15 | 3 |
| אָרְנָ֗ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 21:20 | 2 |
| אָרְנָ֑ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 21:21 | 1 |
| אָרְנָ֣ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 21:28 | 1 |
| אָרְנָ֤ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 21:23 | 1 |
| אָרְנָן֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 21:21 | 1 |
| וְ/אָרְנָ֖ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 21:20 | 1 |
| לְ/אָרְנָ֔ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 21:24 | 1 |
| לְ/אָרְנָ֖ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 21:25 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H771, 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
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 5 — 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 (Ornan). 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
1 Chr. 21:15. (See ARAUNAH.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(active). (1 Chronicles 21:15; 2 Chronicles 3:1) [Araunah]
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
that rejoices
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 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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