Aroer
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heath; tamarisk
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
AROER.Three distinct places. 1. Aroer which is by the brink of the river Arnon (Deu_2:36) is probably the ruin Arâir, on the north bank of the Wady Mojib (Arnon). In such a position it necessarily became a frontier town, and as such is mentioned (cf. Deu_2:36, 2Ki_10:33 etc.). It was captured by Sihon, king of the Amorites (Deu_2:36; Deu_4:48, Jos_12:2; Jos_13:9, Jdg_11:26); when conquered by Israel it was assigned to Reuben (Deu_3:12); it was taken by Hazael, king of Syria (2Ki_10:33), and apparently later on by Moab (Jer_48:19). 2. A city of Judah (1Sa_30:28), perhaps the ruin Arâra, 12 miles east of Beersheba. 3. A city of Gad near Rabbah, i.e. Amman (Jos_13:25, Jdg_11:33). The site is unknown.
E. W. G. Masterman.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
("ruins, places with the foundations laid bore".) (See ARNON.)
1. The city taken from Sihon, king of the Amorites, and assigned to Reuben (Deu_2:36; Jos_13:9; Jos_13:16). Afterward in Moab's possession (Jer_48:19), though Aroer may there be regarded as only lying in Moab's way, when fleeing into the desert, and as asking the cause of Moab's flight. With Aroer is associated some "city that is in the midst of the river." Mr. Grove suggests that at the Arnon junction with the Lejum, one hour E. of Arair or Aroer, the hill with ruins on it may be the site of the city in question; no city could have stood in such a position immediately near Aroer.
2. Aroer facing Rabbbah of Ammon: "built," i.e. restored and enlarged, by Gad (Num_32:34; Jdg_11:33); now perhaps Ayra. Isa_17:2 refers to this Aroer with its dependent "cities," then "forsaken" through Tiglath Pileser's having carried away the inhabitants (2Ki_15:29).
3. A town in Judah (1Sa_30:28) to which David sent portions after his victory over the Amalekites at Ziklag. In the wady Ararah, 20 geographical miles S. of Hebron, on the road from Petra to Gaza.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ar'oer. (ruins).
1. A city on the torrent Arnon, the southern point of the territory of Sihon king of the Amorites and afterwards of the tribe of Reuben, Deu_2:36; Deu_3:12; Deu_4:48; Jos_12:2; Jos_13:9; Jos_13:16; Jdg_11:26; 2Ki_10:33; 1Ch_5:8, but later again in possession of Moab. Jer_48:19. It is the modern Ara'ir, upon the very edge of the precipitous north bank of the Wady Mojeb.
2. Aroer, "that is 'facing' Rahbah" (Rabbah of Ammon), a town built by and belonging to Gad. Num_32:34; Jos_13:25; 2Sa_24:5. This is probably the place mentioned in Jdg_11:33 which was shown in Jerome's time.
3. Aroer, in Isa_17:2 if a place at all, must be still farther north than either of the two already named.
4. A town in Judah, named only in 1Sa_30:28 perhaps Wady Ar'arah, on the road from Petra to Gaza.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
a-rō?ẽr (ערוער, ‛ărō‛ēr; Ἀροήρ, Aroḗr):
(1) A city of the Amorites which stood on the northern edge of the Arnon (Deu_2:36, etc.). Taken by Israel, it shared the vicissitudes of the country north of the river, and when last named (Jer_48:19) is again in the hands of Moab. It is one of the cities which Mesha claims to have built, i.e. fortified. It was within the territory allotted to Reuben, yet its building (fortification) is attributed to Gad (Num_32:34). Thus far came the Syrian, Hazael, in his raid upon Israel (2Ki_10:33). The Roman road across the valley lay about an hour to the West of Khirbet ‛Arā‛ir.
(2) A city in Gilead described as ?before Rabbah,? on the boundary between Gad and the Ammonites (Jos_13:25). No name resembling this has yet been recovered in the district indicated.
(3) A city in the territory of Judah named only in 1Sa_30:28. Probably however in Jos_15:22 we should read ‛ar‛ārāh instead of ‛adh‛ādhāh, which may be the same city, and may be identical with ‛Ar‛āra, a site with cisterns and some remains of ancient buildings about 14 miles Southeast of Beersheba.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Aroer, 1
Aro?er, a town on the north side of the river Arnon, and therefore on the southern border of the territory conquered from the Amorites, which was assigned to the tribes of Reuben and Gad (Deu_2:36; Jos_12:2; Jos_13:9). The Amorites had previously dispossessed the Ammonites of this territory; and although in the texts cited the town seems to be given to Reuben, it is mentioned as a Moabitish city by Jeremiah (Jer_48:19). Burckhardt found the ruins of this town under the name of Araayr, on the edge of a precipice overlooking the river. Aroer is always named in conjunction with 'the city that is in the midst of the river;' whence it has been conjectured that, like Rabbath Ammon [RABBATH-AMMON], it consisted of two parts, or distinct cities; the one on the bank of the river, and the other in the valley beneath, surrounded, either naturally or artificially, by the waters of the river.
Aroer, 2
Aroer, one of the towns 'built,' or probably rebuilt, by the tribe of Gad (Num_32:34). Burckhardt, in journeying from Szalt towards Rabbath Ammon, notices a ruined site, called Ayra, as 'one of the towns built by the tribe of Gad.' It is about seven miles south-west from Szalt. Aroer of Gad is also mentioned in Jdg_11:33, and 2Sa_24:5.
Aroer, 3
Aroer, a city in the south of Judah, to which David sent presents after recovering the spoil of Ziklag (1Sa_30:26; 1Sa_30:28). At the distance of twenty geographical miles S. by W. from Hebron, there is a broad valley called Ararah, in which are evident traces of an ancient village or town. The identity of name shows that this was the Aroer of Judah.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Aroer
(Heb. Aroer', עֲרוֹעֵר[once עִרְעוֹר, Jdg_11:26], ruins, as in Jer_48:6, "heath;" Sept. Α᾿ρωήρ and Α᾿ροήρ), the name of three places. In Isa_17:2, "cities of Aroer" are mentioned; which some think should be translated " ruined cities," as Aroer was not a metropolis, but the name probably stands as a representative of the two towns in that region.
1. A town "by the brink," or "on the bank of" (both the same expression-- Heb. "on the lip"), or "'by," i.e. on the north side of the torrent Arnon (Deu_4:48; Jdg_11:26; 2Ki_10:33; 1Ch_5:8), and therefore on the southern border of the territory conquered from Sihon, which was assigned to the tribes of Reuben and Gad (Deu_2:36; Deu_3:12; Jos_12:2; Jos_13:9). The Amorites had previously dispossessed the Ammonites of this territory; and although the town seems to be given to Reuben (Jos_13:16), it is mentioned as a Moabitish city by Jeremiah (Jer_48:19). According to Eusebius (Onomast. s.v. Α᾿ροήρ) it stood " on the brow of the hill." Burckhardt (comp. Macmichael, Journey, p. 242) found the ruins of this town, under the name of Araayr, on the edge of a precipice overlooking Wady Mojeb (Travels in Syria, p. 372). They are also mentioned under the name Arar in Robinson's Researches (App. to vol. iii, p. 170, and Map). Schwarz places it 15 miles from the Dead Sea (Palest. p. 226). Aroer is always named in conjunction with " the city that is in the midst of the river;" whence Dr. Mansford (Script. Gaz.) conjectures that, like Rabbath Ammon (q.v.), it consisted of two parts, or distinct cities; the one on the bank of the river, and the other in the valley beneath, surrounded, either naturally or artificially, by the waters of the river. For another explanation, SEE ARNON.
2. One of the towns "built," or probably rebuilt, by the tribe of Gad (Num_32:34). It is said in Jos_13:25, to be "before (עִלאּפְּנֵי) Rabbah" [of Ammon]; but, as Raumer well remarks (Palistina, p. 249), this could not possibly have been in the topographical sense of the words (in which before means east of), seeing that Aroer, as a town on the eastern border of Gad, must have been west of Rabbah; while to a person in Palestine proper, or coming from the Jordan, Aroer would be before Rabbah in the ordinary sense. It is (see Ritter, Erdk. 15:1130) apparently the place discovered by Burckhardt (Syria, p. 335), who, in journeying toward Rabbath Ammon, notices a ruined site, called Ayra, about seven miles south-west from es-Salt; probably the same with the Array el-Emir visited by Legh (p. 246) on his way from Heshbon to es-Salt (comp. Schwarz, Palest. p. 231). It is also called Aireh in Robinson's Researches (iii, App. p. 169). Aroer of Gad is also mentioned in Jdg_11:33, and 2Sa_24:5, in which latter passage it is stated to have been situated on the ' river" (brook) of Gad, i.e. apparently on the Wady Nimrin (and not the Arnon, see Reland, Palsest. p. 533). Keil (Comment. on Joshua p. 339), approved by Van de Velde (Memoir, p. 288), fixes upon Kulat Zeska Gadda, as lying in a wady and east of Rabbah; but the passage in 2 Samuel (" and they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city, that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad. and toward Jazer") can only signify [if, indeed, the word אֲשֶׁר, which, do not signify here merely "to wit," or rather be not altogether spurious] that the party of Joab encamped just across the Jordan, in the bed of one of the brooks of Gad (the Wady Nimrin), south of Aroer and not far from Jaazer. Jerome speaks of it as Aruir (Euseb. Α᾿ρουεί), a village still found on a hill 20 Roman miles south of Jerusalem (Onomast. s.v.); but this, if correct, can only mean south-east.
3. A city in the south of Judah (i.e. in Simeon), to which David sent presents after recovering the spoil of Ziklag (1Sa_30:26; 1Sa_30:28). It appears to have been the native city of two of David's warriors (1Ch_11:44). At the distance of twenty geographical miles south by west from Hebron, Dr. Robinson (Researches, ii, 618) came to a broad wady where there are many pits for water, which are called Ararah, and which gave name to the valley. In the valley and on the western hill are evident traces of an ancient village or town, consisting only of foundations of unhewn stones, now much scattered, but yet sufficiently distinct to mark them as foundations. Small fragments of pottery are also everywhere visible. The same identification is proposed by Schwarz, who calls the place "the modern village Arar, two and a half English miles south of Moladah" (Palest. p. 113).
Aroer.
SEE HEATH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
AROER.Three distinct places. 1. Aroer which is by the brink of the river Arnon (Deu_2:36) is probably the ruin Arâir, on the north bank of the Wady Mojib (Arnon). In such a position it necessarily became a frontier town, and as such is mentioned (cf. Deu_2:36, 2Ki_10:33 etc.). It was captured by Sihon, king of the Amorites (Deu_2:36; Deu_4:48, Jos_12:2; Jos_13:9, Jdg_11:26); when conquered by Israel it was assigned to Reuben (Deu_3:12); it was taken by Hazael, king of Syria (2Ki_10:33), and apparently later on by Moab (Jer_48:19). 2. A city of Judah (1Sa_30:28), perhaps the ruin Arâra, 12 miles east of Beersheba. 3. A city of Gad near Rabbah, i.e. Amman (Jos_13:25, Jdg_11:33). The site is unknown.
E. W. G. Masterman.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
("ruins, places with the foundations laid bore".) (See ARNON.)
1. The city taken from Sihon, king of the Amorites, and assigned to Reuben (Deu_2:36; Jos_13:9; Jos_13:16). Afterward in Moab's possession (Jer_48:19), though Aroer may there be regarded as only lying in Moab's way, when fleeing into the desert, and as asking the cause of Moab's flight. With Aroer is associated some "city that is in the midst of the river." Mr. Grove suggests that at the Arnon junction with the Lejum, one hour E. of Arair or Aroer, the hill with ruins on it may be the site of the city in question; no city could have stood in such a position immediately near Aroer.
2. Aroer facing Rabbbah of Ammon: "built," i.e. restored and enlarged, by Gad (Num_32:34; Jdg_11:33); now perhaps Ayra. Isa_17:2 refers to this Aroer with its dependent "cities," then "forsaken" through Tiglath Pileser's having carried away the inhabitants (2Ki_15:29).
3. A town in Judah (1Sa_30:28) to which David sent portions after his victory over the Amalekites at Ziklag. In the wady Ararah, 20 geographical miles S. of Hebron, on the road from Petra to Gaza.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ar'oer. (ruins).
1. A city on the torrent Arnon, the southern point of the territory of Sihon king of the Amorites and afterwards of the tribe of Reuben, Deu_2:36; Deu_3:12; Deu_4:48; Jos_12:2; Jos_13:9; Jos_13:16; Jdg_11:26; 2Ki_10:33; 1Ch_5:8, but later again in possession of Moab. Jer_48:19. It is the modern Ara'ir, upon the very edge of the precipitous north bank of the Wady Mojeb.
2. Aroer, "that is 'facing' Rahbah" (Rabbah of Ammon), a town built by and belonging to Gad. Num_32:34; Jos_13:25; 2Sa_24:5. This is probably the place mentioned in Jdg_11:33 which was shown in Jerome's time.
3. Aroer, in Isa_17:2 if a place at all, must be still farther north than either of the two already named.
4. A town in Judah, named only in 1Sa_30:28 perhaps Wady Ar'arah, on the road from Petra to Gaza.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
a-rō?ẽr (ערוער, ‛ărō‛ēr; Ἀροήρ, Aroḗr):
(1) A city of the Amorites which stood on the northern edge of the Arnon (Deu_2:36, etc.). Taken by Israel, it shared the vicissitudes of the country north of the river, and when last named (Jer_48:19) is again in the hands of Moab. It is one of the cities which Mesha claims to have built, i.e. fortified. It was within the territory allotted to Reuben, yet its building (fortification) is attributed to Gad (Num_32:34). Thus far came the Syrian, Hazael, in his raid upon Israel (2Ki_10:33). The Roman road across the valley lay about an hour to the West of Khirbet ‛Arā‛ir.
(2) A city in Gilead described as ?before Rabbah,? on the boundary between Gad and the Ammonites (Jos_13:25). No name resembling this has yet been recovered in the district indicated.
(3) A city in the territory of Judah named only in 1Sa_30:28. Probably however in Jos_15:22 we should read ‛ar‛ārāh instead of ‛adh‛ādhāh, which may be the same city, and may be identical with ‛Ar‛āra, a site with cisterns and some remains of ancient buildings about 14 miles Southeast of Beersheba.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Aroer, 1
Aro?er, a town on the north side of the river Arnon, and therefore on the southern border of the territory conquered from the Amorites, which was assigned to the tribes of Reuben and Gad (Deu_2:36; Jos_12:2; Jos_13:9). The Amorites had previously dispossessed the Ammonites of this territory; and although in the texts cited the town seems to be given to Reuben, it is mentioned as a Moabitish city by Jeremiah (Jer_48:19). Burckhardt found the ruins of this town under the name of Araayr, on the edge of a precipice overlooking the river. Aroer is always named in conjunction with 'the city that is in the midst of the river;' whence it has been conjectured that, like Rabbath Ammon [RABBATH-AMMON], it consisted of two parts, or distinct cities; the one on the bank of the river, and the other in the valley beneath, surrounded, either naturally or artificially, by the waters of the river.
Aroer, 2
Aroer, one of the towns 'built,' or probably rebuilt, by the tribe of Gad (Num_32:34). Burckhardt, in journeying from Szalt towards Rabbath Ammon, notices a ruined site, called Ayra, as 'one of the towns built by the tribe of Gad.' It is about seven miles south-west from Szalt. Aroer of Gad is also mentioned in Jdg_11:33, and 2Sa_24:5.
Aroer, 3
Aroer, a city in the south of Judah, to which David sent presents after recovering the spoil of Ziklag (1Sa_30:26; 1Sa_30:28). At the distance of twenty geographical miles S. by W. from Hebron, there is a broad valley called Ararah, in which are evident traces of an ancient village or town. The identity of name shows that this was the Aroer of Judah.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Aroer
(Heb. Aroer', עֲרוֹעֵר[once עִרְעוֹר, Jdg_11:26], ruins, as in Jer_48:6, "heath;" Sept. Α᾿ρωήρ and Α᾿ροήρ), the name of three places. In Isa_17:2, "cities of Aroer" are mentioned; which some think should be translated " ruined cities," as Aroer was not a metropolis, but the name probably stands as a representative of the two towns in that region.
1. A town "by the brink," or "on the bank of" (both the same expression-- Heb. "on the lip"), or "'by," i.e. on the north side of the torrent Arnon (Deu_4:48; Jdg_11:26; 2Ki_10:33; 1Ch_5:8), and therefore on the southern border of the territory conquered from Sihon, which was assigned to the tribes of Reuben and Gad (Deu_2:36; Deu_3:12; Jos_12:2; Jos_13:9). The Amorites had previously dispossessed the Ammonites of this territory; and although the town seems to be given to Reuben (Jos_13:16), it is mentioned as a Moabitish city by Jeremiah (Jer_48:19). According to Eusebius (Onomast. s.v. Α᾿ροήρ) it stood " on the brow of the hill." Burckhardt (comp. Macmichael, Journey, p. 242) found the ruins of this town, under the name of Araayr, on the edge of a precipice overlooking Wady Mojeb (Travels in Syria, p. 372). They are also mentioned under the name Arar in Robinson's Researches (App. to vol. iii, p. 170, and Map). Schwarz places it 15 miles from the Dead Sea (Palest. p. 226). Aroer is always named in conjunction with " the city that is in the midst of the river;" whence Dr. Mansford (Script. Gaz.) conjectures that, like Rabbath Ammon (q.v.), it consisted of two parts, or distinct cities; the one on the bank of the river, and the other in the valley beneath, surrounded, either naturally or artificially, by the waters of the river. For another explanation, SEE ARNON.
2. One of the towns "built," or probably rebuilt, by the tribe of Gad (Num_32:34). It is said in Jos_13:25, to be "before (עִלאּפְּנֵי) Rabbah" [of Ammon]; but, as Raumer well remarks (Palistina, p. 249), this could not possibly have been in the topographical sense of the words (in which before means east of), seeing that Aroer, as a town on the eastern border of Gad, must have been west of Rabbah; while to a person in Palestine proper, or coming from the Jordan, Aroer would be before Rabbah in the ordinary sense. It is (see Ritter, Erdk. 15:1130) apparently the place discovered by Burckhardt (Syria, p. 335), who, in journeying toward Rabbath Ammon, notices a ruined site, called Ayra, about seven miles south-west from es-Salt; probably the same with the Array el-Emir visited by Legh (p. 246) on his way from Heshbon to es-Salt (comp. Schwarz, Palest. p. 231). It is also called Aireh in Robinson's Researches (iii, App. p. 169). Aroer of Gad is also mentioned in Jdg_11:33, and 2Sa_24:5, in which latter passage it is stated to have been situated on the ' river" (brook) of Gad, i.e. apparently on the Wady Nimrin (and not the Arnon, see Reland, Palsest. p. 533). Keil (Comment. on Joshua p. 339), approved by Van de Velde (Memoir, p. 288), fixes upon Kulat Zeska Gadda, as lying in a wady and east of Rabbah; but the passage in 2 Samuel (" and they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city, that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad. and toward Jazer") can only signify [if, indeed, the word אֲשֶׁר, which, do not signify here merely "to wit," or rather be not altogether spurious] that the party of Joab encamped just across the Jordan, in the bed of one of the brooks of Gad (the Wady Nimrin), south of Aroer and not far from Jaazer. Jerome speaks of it as Aruir (Euseb. Α᾿ρουεί), a village still found on a hill 20 Roman miles south of Jerusalem (Onomast. s.v.); but this, if correct, can only mean south-east.
3. A city in the south of Judah (i.e. in Simeon), to which David sent presents after recovering the spoil of Ziklag (1Sa_30:26; 1Sa_30:28). It appears to have been the native city of two of David's warriors (1Ch_11:44). At the distance of twenty geographical miles south by west from Hebron, Dr. Robinson (Researches, ii, 618) came to a broad wady where there are many pits for water, which are called Ararah, and which gave name to the valley. In the valley and on the western hill are evident traces of an ancient village or town, consisting only of foundations of unhewn stones, now much scattered, but yet sufficiently distinct to mark them as foundations. Small fragments of pottery are also everywhere visible. The same identification is proposed by Schwarz, who calls the place "the modern village Arar, two and a half English miles south of Moladah" (Palest. p. 113).
Aroer.
SEE HEATH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
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