H0740 H0740
Ariel — 'lion of God'; a prophetic name for Jerusalem, also a personal name and possibly an altar-hearth term.
Ariel is a richly layered name meaning 'lion of God' (or possibly 'hearth of God'). Isaiah 29:1-7 uses it as a poetic designation for Jerusalem, the city where David encamped, with God warning that he will besiege Ariel until it becomes like an actual altar-hearth — a devastating wordplay connecting the city's proud name to the fires of judgment. In Ezra 8:16, Ariel is simply a personal name, one of the chief men Ezra summoned to recruit Levites for the journey to Jerusalem. The dual meaning — civic pride and sacrificial fire — makes this one of the more theologically charged proper nouns in the Hebrew Bible.
Senses
1. Ariel — A name meaning 'lion of God' (from אֲרִי 'lion' + אֵל 'God'), used with overlapping senses: (a) as a prophetic epithet for Jerusalem in Isaiah 29:1-2, where God addresses the city as 'Ariel' yet threatens to make it truly like an 'ariel' (altar-hearth) — a striking wordplay on civic pride and sacrificial fire; (b) as a personal name of a chief man whom Ezra dispatched to recruit Levites for the return from exile (Ezra 8:16). The multilingual evidence — Spanish 'Ariel,' French 'Ariel,' English 'Ariel' — preserves the Hebrew form unchanged, while prepositional glosses ('for-Ariel,' 'like-Ariel') reflect Isaiah's varied syntactic uses across the passage. 6×
AR["أَرِيئِيلَ", "أَرِيئِيلُ", "إِلَى-أَرِيئِيل", "عَلَى-أَرِيئِيلَ", "كَـ-أَرِيئِيلَ"]·ben["অরীয়েল", "অরীয়েলকে", "অরীয়েলকে-", "অরীয়েলের-মত"]·DE["[אריאל]", "[כאריאל]", "[לאריאל]"]·EN["Ariel", "for-Ariel", "like-Ariel"]·FR["Ariel", "[לאריאל]", "comme-Ariel", "à-Ariel"]·heb["אריאל", "כ-אריאל", "ל-אריאל"]·HI["अरीएल", "अरीएल-को", "को-अरीएल", "जैसे-अरीएल"]·ID["Ariel", "kepada-Ariel", "seperti-Ariel"]·IT["Ariel", "[לאריאל]"]·jav["Arièl", "dhateng-Ariel", "kados-Arièl", "tumrap-Arièl"]·KO["같이-아리엘", "로-아리엘", "아리엘", "아리엘이여", "에-아리엘을"]·PT["Ari'el", "a-Ari'el", "a-Ariel", "como-Ari'el"]·RU["Ариэль", "Ариэля", "за-Ариэлем", "как-Ариэль"]·ES["Ariel", "a-Ariel", "como-Ariel"]·SW["Arieli", "kama-Arieli"]·TR["Ariel", "Ariel'e", "Ariel'i", "Ariel-gibi", "Ariele"]·urd["اریئیل", "اریئیل-کو", "اریئیل-کی-طرح", "اَری-ایل-کو"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† I. אֲרִיאֵל 1. n.pr.f. (Ew; v. p. 1120) Ariel (lioness of Ēl) name applied to Jerusalem Is 29:1(×2), 2(×2), 7 (so Ges Ew Che Di al.; 𝔗 De Brd Or al. say hearth of Ēl, cf. אֲרִאֵיל). Du Is 29:1 (q.v.) makes 1 = אֲרִיאֵיל, from אָרָה + ל afform., hearth (not + אֵל hearth of †El). 2. n.pr.m. a chief man among returning exiles Ezr 8:16. 3. אֲרִאֵל מוֹאָב 2 S 23:20 = אֲרִיאֵל מ׳ 1 Ch 11:22 taken by…