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Lexicon :: Strong's H727 - 'ārôn

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אָרוֹן
Transliteration
'ārôn
Pronunciation
aw-rone'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From אָרָה (H717) (in the sense of gathering)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 166a

Strong’s Definitions

אָרוֹן ʼârôwn, aw-rone'; or אָרֹן ʼârôn; from H717 (in the sense of gathering); a box:—ark, chest, coffin.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 202x

The KJV translates Strong's H727 in the following manner: ark (195x), chest (6x), coffin (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 202x
The KJV translates Strong's H727 in the following manner: ark (195x), chest (6x), coffin (1x).

  1. chest, ark

    1. money chest

    2. Ark of the Covenant

  2. (TWOT) coffin

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָרוֹן ʼârôwn, aw-rone'; or אָרֹן ʼârôn; from H717 (in the sense of gathering); a box:—ark, chest, coffin.
STRONGS H727: Abbreviations
אֲרוֺן, with article הָאָרוֺן, הָאָרֹן 203 noun masculineExodus 35:12 (feminine1 Samuel 4:17; 2 Chronicles 8:11) chest, ark (Phoenician ארן, sarcophagus, Assyrian êrênu (& êrû) chest ZimBP 6, 22, Arabic إِرَانً, chest, so Aramaic axnuvRAf  , also Nabataean ארנא, Vogp. 102, Phoenician; Mishna also plural ארונות) — only singular; absolute † אֲרוֺן 2 Kings 12:10 2 Chronicles 24:8; with article הָאָרוֺן Deuteronomy 10:2 — Exodus Leviticus Numbers where הָאָרֹן (Exodus 25:14 (twice in verse) + 13 times Exodus; Leviticus 16:2; Numbers 3:31; Numbers 10:35); construct אֲרוֺן Exodus 25:10 +, אֲרֹן Exodus 30:6; Numbers 4:5; Numbers 7:89 —
†1. chest, for money-offerings 2 Kings 12:10; 2 Kings 12:11; 2 Chronicles 24:8, 10, 11 (twice in verse).
†2. sarcophagus, mummy-case of Joseph Genesis 50:26 (E).
3. chest, ark in tabernacle & temple, containing tables of law, with cherubim above, the especially seat of י׳ among his people, only Hexateuch (71 times) Samuel (61 times) Kings (12 times) & Chronicles (48 times) + Judges 20:27; Jeremiah 3:16; Psalm 132:8; used alone & in various combinations (compare SeyringZAW 1891, 114 f.).
a. indefinite אֲרוֺן עֲצֵי שִׁטִּים an ark of shittim-wood Exodus 25:10; Deuteronomy 10:3 compare Deuteronomy 10:1.
b. def. הָא׳ Exodus 25:14 + 54 times (Hexateuch P, except Joshua J E; Samuel Kings Chronicles).
c. יהוה א׳ Joshua 4:11 + 32 times Joshua (J E D) Samuel Kings Chronicles.
d. א׳ אֱלֹהִים † 1 Samuel 3:3; 1 Samuel 4:11; הָאֱלֹהִים א׳ 1 Samuel 4:13 + 32 times Samuel, Chronicles (but 1 Samuel 14:18 (twice in verse) read הָאֵפוֺד Greek Version of the LXX We Dr), compare אֱלֹהֵינוּ א׳ † 1 Chronicles 13:3.
e. אלהי יִשְׂרָאֵל א׳ 1 Samuel 5:7 + 6 times Samuel, term used only by Philistines; יהוה אלהי יִשְׂרָאֵל א׳ † 1 Chronicles 15:12, 14; יהוה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם א׳ † Joshua 4:5 (JE); א׳ אֲדֹנָי יהוה † 1 Kings 2:26; יחוה אֲדוֺן כָּל־הָאָרֶץ א׳ † Joshua 3:13 (J E D) compare אדון כל־הארץ [הברית] א׳ Joshua 3:11, where הברית (with article) is probably interpolated, see Di; only once & late the long phrase האלהים יהוה יוֺשֵׁב א׳ הַכְּרוּבִים אֲשֶׁר נִקְרָא־שֵׁם 1 Chronicles 13:6.
f. in combination with בְּרִית, largely D & under D's influence; ארון הַבְּרִית ark of the covenant † Joshua 3:6 (twice in verse); Joshua 3:8; Joshua 4:9; Joshua 6:6 (all J E D); בְּרִית יהוה א׳ Numbers 10:33; Numbers 14:44 (both J) Deuteronomy 10:8; Deuteronomy 31:9, 25; Joshua 4:7, 18; Joshua 6:8; Joshua 8:33; Jeremiah 3:16 + 17 times Samuel Kings Chronicles; once longer צְבָאוֺת ישֵׁב הַכְּרֻבִים בְּרִית י׳ א׳ † 1 Samuel 4:4; also בְּרִית הָאֱלֹהִים א׳ † Judges 20:27; 1 Samuel 4:4; 2 Samuel 15:24; 1 Chronicles 16:6; & אלהיכם בְּרִית א׳ א׳ Deuteronomy 31:26; Joshua 3:3.
g. אֲרוֺן הָעֵדוּת ark of the testimony, only in P, corresponding to בְּרִית א׳ (compare Di on Exodus 25:16), Exodus 25:22 + 8 times Exodus; Numbers 4:5; Numbers 7:84; Joshua 4:16.
h. † הַקֹּדֶשׁ א׳ 2 Chronicles 35:3.
i. עֻזֶּךָ֑ א׳ the ark of thy strength 2 Chronicles 6:41; Psalm 132:8. — (compare also tables given by Seyringl.c.& his theory as to earliest designation of ark.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

50:26

Exodus

25:10; 25:10; 25:14; 25:14; 25:16; 25:22; 30:6; 35:12

Leviticus

16:2

Numbers

3:31; 4:5; 4:5; 7:84; 7:89; 10:33; 10:35; 14:44

Deuteronomy

10:1; 10:2; 10:3; 10:8; 31:9; 31:25; 31:26

Joshua

3:3; 3:6; 3:8; 3:11; 3:13; 4:5; 4:7; 4:9; 4:11; 4:16; 4:18; 6:6; 6:8; 8:33

Judges

20:27; 20:27

1 Samuel

3:3; 4:4; 4:4; 4:11; 4:13; 4:17; 5:7; 14:18

2 Samuel

15:24

1 Kings

2:26

2 Kings

12:10; 12:10; 12:11

1 Chronicles

13:3; 13:6; 15:12; 15:14; 16:6

2 Chronicles

6:41; 8:11; 24:8; 24:8; 24:10; 24:11; 35:3

Psalms

132:8; 132:8

Jeremiah

3:16; 3:16

H727

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H727 matches the Hebrew אָרוֹן ('ārôn),
which occurs 202 times in 174 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 4 (2Sa 6:10–1Ch 16:4)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:10 - So David was not willing to take the ark of the LORD into the city of David. But David took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:11 - And the ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months, and the LORD blessed Obed-edom and all his household.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:12 - And it was told King David, “The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:13 - And when those who bore the ark of the LORD had gone six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:15 - So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting and with the sound of the horn.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:16 - As the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:17 - And they brought in the ark of the LORD and set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:2 - the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:11 - Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:24 - And Abiathar came up, and behold, Zadok came also with all the Levites, bearing the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God until the people had all passed out of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:25 - Then the king said to Zadok, “Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his dwelling place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:29 - So Zadok and Abiathar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and they remained there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:26 - And to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your estate, for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because you shared in all my father’s affliction.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:15 - And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:19 - The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:1 - Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:3 - And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:4 - And they brought up the ark of the LORD, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:5 - And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:6 - Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:7 - For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:9 - There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone that Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:21 - And there I have provided a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:9 - Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in the lid of it and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the LORD. And the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:10 - And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s secretary and the high priest came up and they bagged and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 6:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:31 - These are the men whom David put in charge of the service of song in the house of the LORD after the ark rested there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 13:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:3 - Then let us bring again the ark of our God to us, for we did not seek it[fn] in the days of Saul.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 13:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:5 - So David assembled all Israel from the Nile[fn] of Egypt to Lebo-hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:6 - And David and all Israel went up to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim that belongs to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the LORD who sits enthroned above the cherubim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 13:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:7 - And they carried the ark of God on a new cart, from the house of Abinadab, and Uzzah and Ahio[fn] were driving the cart.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 13:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:9 - And when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah put out his hand to take hold of the ark, for the oxen stumbled.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 13:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:10 - And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and he struck him down because he put out his hand to the ark, and he died there before God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 13:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:12 - And David was afraid of God that day, and he said, “How can I bring the ark of God home to me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 13:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:13 - So David did not take the ark home into the city of David, but took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 13:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:14 - And the ark of God remained with the household of Obed-edom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that he had.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:1 - David[fn] built houses for himself in the city of David. And he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:2 - Then David said that no one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the LORD had chosen them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister to him forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:3 - And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the LORD to its place, which he had prepared for it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:12 - and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites. Consecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:14 - So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:15 - And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:23 - Berechiah and Elkanah were to be gatekeepers for the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:24 - Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, should blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were to be gatekeepers for the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:25 - So David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom with rejoicing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:26 - And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:27 - David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as also were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers and Chenaniah the leader of the music of the singers. And David wore a linen ephod.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:28 - So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, to the sound of the horn, trumpets, and cymbals, and made loud music on harps and lyres.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:29 - And as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:1 - And they brought in the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:4 - Then he appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the LORD, to invoke, to thank, and to praise the LORD, the God of Israel.

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