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Araunah

Araunah a-ro'-na ('arawnah, 2Sa 24:16, 2Sa 24:20 ff; 'aranyah 2Sa 24:18, and 'ornan, 1Ch 21:15 ff; 2Ch 3:1, all from a Hebrew root meaning "to be strong"): A Jebusite from whom David at the request of the prop...

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Araunah a-ro'-na ('arawnah, 2Sa 24:16, 2Sa 24:20 ff; 'aranyah 2Sa 24:18, and 'ornan, 1Ch 21:15 ff; 2Ch 3:1, all from a Hebrew root meaning "to be strong"): A Jebusite from whom David at the request of the prophet Gad bought a threshing-floor located upon Mt. Moriah, as a site for an altar of the Lord at the time of the great plague (2Sa 24:15, 1Ch 21:15), upon which Solomon later erected the temple (2Ch 3:1).

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