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title: אֲרָא — Ara · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲרָא (690), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Ara. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲרָא

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«אֲרָא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ara** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 690 · **BDB:** אֲרָא

### Glosses

Ara (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Ara [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/690/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/690/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (meaning unknown, Thes conject. = אֲרִי lion) a descendant of Asher 1 Ch 7:38.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲרָא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/690/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 7:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.38/)

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וּבְנֵ֖י יֶ֑תֶר יְפֻנֶּ֥ה וּפִסְפָּ֖ה וַאְרָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Jether \[were\].Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara.

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