H0733 H0733
Arah; a personal name borne by an Asherite clan leader and a family of returning exiles.
A proper name meaning possibly 'traveller' or 'wayfarer,' borne by at least two individuals in the Old Testament. The first is a man of the tribe of Asher listed in the genealogy of 1 Chronicles 7:39. The second heads a family of returning exiles numbered at 775 in Ezra 2:5 and 652 in Nehemiah 7:10—a discrepancy common in post-exilic census records. Nehemiah 6:18 may reference the same family through a marriage connection to Tobiah. Spanish renders it 'Ara' and 'Araj,' reflecting variant transliteration traditions.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Arah—a proper noun identifying (a) a descendant of Asher in 1 Chronicles 7:39 and (b) the ancestor of a family that returned from Babylonian exile (Ezra 2:5; Neh 7:10). The name possibly derives from the root ארח 'to travel,' suggesting 'traveller.' The family appears again in Nehemiah 6:18, where Meshullam son of Berechiah married a daughter of this clan, creating a political alliance with Tobiah the Ammonite. Spanish alternates between 'Ara' and 'Araj,' while French and German leave the Hebrew form untranslated. 4×
AR["آرَح", "آرَحَ", "أَرَحَ"]·ben["আরহ", "আরহের"]·DE["[ארח]"]·EN["Arach", "Arah"]·FR["[ארח]"]·heb["ארח"]·HI["आरह", "आरह-का", "आरह-के", "आराह-के"]·ID["Arah", "Arakh"]·IT["[ארח]"]·jav["Arah", "Arakh"]·KO["아라", "아라의"]·PT["Arach", "Arah"]·RU["Арах", "Араха"]·ES["Ara", "Araj"]·SW["Ara", "wa-Ara"]·TR["Arah", "Arah'nın", "Arah'ın", "Arahin"]·urd["آرح", "آرح-کے", "آرخ-کے"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† אָרַח n.pr.m. (traveller?) 1. a man of Asher 1 Ch 7:39. 2. head of a family of returning exiles Ezr 2:5 = Ne 7:10; perhaps = אָרַ֑ח Ne 6:18.