H6144 H6144
Ar — a Moabite city or district south of the Arnon, prominent in Israel's wilderness itinerary.
A place name designating either the capital city or a broader district of Moab situated south of the Arnon gorge. The name may derive from the common Semitic root for 'city' (cognate with Hebrew 'ir), and South Arabian inscriptions attest 'ar as a fortified height. It figures in the poetic fragment celebrating Israel's approach to the Arnon (Num 21:15) and is called 'Ar of Moab' in the oracle against Moab (Num 21:28; Isa 15:1). God instructs Israel not to harass Moab because Ar has been given to Lot's descendants (Deut 2:9, 18, 29). Translations consistently transliterate the name — English, Spanish, and German 'Ar,' French 'Ar' — treating it as an irreducible toponym.
Senses
1. Ar — A Moabite place name, either the chief city or the surrounding district south of the Arnon River. In the Pentateuchal travel narratives, YHWH forbids Israel from dispossessing Moab because He assigned Ar to Lot's descendants (Deut 2:9, 18, 29). The poetic snippet in Num 21:15, 28 locates it near the Arnon, while Isaiah 15:1 pronounces its ruin in the oracle against Moab. All modern-language glosses transliterate the toponym unchanged, confirming its status as a proper noun rather than a descriptive term. 6×
AR["عَارَ", "عَارُ", "فِي-عَارَ"]·ben["আর", "আরে-", "আরের"]·DE["Ar", "[ער]", "in-Ar"]·EN["Ar", "Ar-of", "in-Ar"]·FR["Ar", "[ער]", "dans-Ar"]·heb["ב-ער", "ער"]·HI["-आर-में", "आर"]·ID["Ar", "di-Ar"]·IT["Ar", "[ער]", "in-Ar"]·jav["Ar", "ing-Ar"]·KO["아르", "아르-를", "아르-에", "알이"]·PT["'Ar", "'Ar-de", "Ar", "em-Ar"]·RU["Ар", "Ар-", "Ара", "в-Аре"]·ES["Ar", "Ar-de", "en-Ar"]·SW["Ari", "ya-Ari"]·TR["Ar", "Ar'da-", "Ar'ı", "Ar'ın"]·urd["عار", "عار-میں"]
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
† I. עָר n.pr.loc. in Moab, S. of Arnon (Ηρ Nu 21:15, elsewhere chiefly Αροηρ);—ע׳ Nu 21:15; Dt 2:9, 18, 29; עָר מוֹאָך Nu 21:28; Is 15:1;—usually interpreted as capital city (עָר = עִיר) of Moab (DHMZMG xxxvii (1883), 398 cp. Sab. ער fortified height, cf. MordtmHim. Inschr. 29 HalEt.Sab. 159, so Arabic ٱلْعُرُّ, dial. of Yemen); BuhlGeogr. 269 f. thinks name of district S. of Arnon.