AVARAN (pale?).Surname of Eleazar, a brother of Judas Maccabæus (1Ma_2:5; 1Ma_6:43).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
av?a-ran: A surname of Eleazar, the third son of Mattathias (1 Macc 2:5). It is doubtfully conjectured that Eleazar received this surname from the episode related in 1 Macc 6:43-46; the word may mean ?the piercer,? referring to his stabbing of the elephant. Some connect it with חוּר, ḥūr, ?to be white,? and connect it with Eleazar's white complexion. The Syriac reads ?Chavran? and the Vulgate's ?Abaron?; the Septuagint in 1 Macc 6:43 gives Sauarán which is an error for Eleázaros aúran; Septuagint's Codex Venetus corrects to aúraň.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Avaran
(Αὐαράν, Josephus Αὐράν, Ant. 12, 6,1; Vulg. Auram and Abaron; prob. of Arabic derivation, see Grimm, in loc.), an epithet of Eleazar, the brother of Judas Maccabaeus (1Ma_2:5).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.