Aran

In Bible versions:

Aran: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

son of Dishan of Seir

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an ark; their curse

Hebrew

Strongs #0765: Nra 'Aran

Aran = "joyous"

1) a descendant of Esau

765 'Aran ar-awn'

from 7442; stridulous; Aran, an Edomite:-Aran.
see HEBREW for 07442

Aran [EBD]

wild goat, a descendant of Seir the Horite (Gen. 36:28).

Aran [NAVE]

ARAN, son of Dishan, Gen. 36:28; 1 Chr. 1:42.

ARAN [SMITH]

(wild goat), a Horite, son of Dishan and brother of Uz. Genesis 36:28; 1Chr 1:42

ARAN [ISBE]

ARAN - a'-ran ('aran, "wild goat"): A son of Dishan, the Horite (Gen 36:28; 1 Ch 1:42). It may possibly be connected with the Yerahmelite Oren ('-ren) (1 Ch 2:25; compare Curtis, Chron. at the place; Dillmann, Gen at the place; ZDMG, L, 168); Robertson Smith claims that this name is equivalent to the Samaritan ('-r-n), "wild goat" (Jour. Phil., IX, 90). J. Jacobs translates it by "ass" (Stud. Biblical Arch., 71). This is one of the many totem names in the Bible. More than one-third of the Horites, the descendants of Seir, bear animal names, and those clans of the Edomites connected with the Horites also have animal names. The very name "Self" means a "he-goat," and Dishan, "a gazelle" (Stud. Biblical Arch., 70-72). Gray, however, remarks that "the instance (Aran) is most uncertain" (HPN, 108).

Samuel Cohon