One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Arioch. Every Arioch in the Bible
person
Arioch
אַרְיוֹךְ
Arioch, king of Ellasar, was one of the four kings who joined forces with Chedorlaomer in the battle against the five kings of the plain.
- verses
- 2
- first named
- Genesis 14:1
- last named
- Genesis 14:9
- period
- the Patriarchs
- tribe
- Mesopotamia
Description
Who was Arioch?
Arioch is mentioned in Genesis 14 as the king of Ellasar, one of the four kings who allied with Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, in a battle against five kings in the region of Sodom and Gomorrah. The other kings allied with Chedorlaomer were Amraphel king of Shinar and Tidal king of Goiim.
The biblical account states that these four kings had previously subjugated the five kings of the plain (Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Bela) for twelve years. In the thirteenth year, the five kings rebelled against Chedorlaomer's rule. As a result, Chedorlaomer and his allies, including Arioch, went to war against the rebellious kings.
Arioch's kingdom, Ellasar, is not definitively identified but is believed to be located in the region of Mesopotamia. His participation in this battle alongside Chedorlaomer suggests that he was a powerful ruler and had a significant military force at his disposal.
The four kings, led by Chedorlaomer, defeated the five kings and captured Lot, Abraham's nephew, along with his possessions. Upon hearing of Lot's capture, Abraham mobilized his trained men and pursued the victorious kings. Abraham successfully defeated Chedorlaomer and his allies, including Arioch, and rescued Lot and his belongings.
Apart from this event, no further information is provided about Arioch or his kingdom in the biblical text. His mention serves to provide historical context for the political and military dynamics of the ancient Near East during the time of Abraham.
Relations
Direct connections
The kinship import reads the registry's own columns — parent, child, sibling, spouse — for every entity in it, and records none here. An extracted relation would be listed beside them, and none names this person either.
Not stated
No family is recorded for this person.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Arioch is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
2 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (2).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources