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title: אֲרָרַט — Ararat · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲרָרַט (780), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: Ararat. BDB 1906: n.pr.terr. Ararat. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲרָרַט

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«אֲרָרַט» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ararat** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 780 · **BDB:** אֲרָרַט

### Glosses

of.Ararat (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Ararat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/780/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.terr. Ararat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/780/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.terr. Ararat (Assyrian Urarṭu COTGloss, cf. LagArmen. Stud. § 100)—א׳ Je 51:27; אֲרָרָ֑ט Gn 8:4 + 3 times—a district in Eastern Armenia between the river Araxes \& lakes Van \& Oroomiah, cf. KGF; to this prob. ref. in 2 K 19:37 = Is 37:38 אֶרֶץ א׳; also Gn 8:4 הָרֵי א׳, where the ark rested; used perhaps with wider ref. Je 51:27 מַמְלְכוֹת א׳ (‖ מִנִּי, אַשְׁכְּנַז).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲרָרַט» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/780/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 8:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.8.4/)

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וַתָּ֤נַח הַתֵּבָה֙ בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י בְּשִׁבְעָה־עָשָׂ֥ר י֖וֹם לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ עַ֖ל הָרֵ֥י אֲרָרָֽט׃

*Word for word:* and it.rested the ark in the month (the) seventh on.\[the\] seven- teen day of the month on the.mountains of.Ararat

*JPS 1917:* And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

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[Jeremiah 51:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.27/)

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שְׂאוּ־נֵ֣ס בָּאָ֗רֶץ תִּקְע֨וּ שׁוֹפָ֤ר בַּגּוֹיִם֙ קַדְּשׁ֤וּ עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ גּוֹיִ֔ם הַשְׁמִ֧יעוּ עָלֶ֛יהָ מַמְלְכ֥וֹת אֲרָרַ֖ט מִנִּ֣י וְאַשְׁכְּנָ֑ז פִּקְד֤וּ עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ טִפְסָ֔ר הַֽעֲלוּ־ס֖וּס כְּיֶ֥לֶק סָמָֽר׃

*Word for word:* lift.up a.standard in the land blow a.trumpet among the nations consecrate on it nations summon on it the.kingdoms of.Ararat Minni and Ashkenaz appoint on it an.official bring.up horse\[s\] like locust\[s\] bristly

*JPS 1917:* Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the horn among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.

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