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    2 others in the registry answer to the name Aroer. Every Aroer in the Bible

    place · also Aroerite

    Aroer

    עֲרֹעֵר, עֲדְעָדָה

    Aroer, a city in the territory of Gad, built by the Gadites.

    Where the story of Aroer happens Aroer, and 4 places the claims reach, framed to them: Aroer, Abel-keramim, Elealeh, Heshbon, Kiriathaim. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.AroerAbel-keramimElealehHeshbonKiriathaim
    Aroer, and 4 places the claims reach
    verses
    7
    first named
    Numbers 32:34
    last named
    1 Chronicles 11:44
    feature
    settlement
    coordinates
    31.47°N · 35.82°E
    settlement31.47°N · 35.82°E

    Arair (OpenBible)

    Scholarship offers 4 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.

    Description

    Aroer in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Aroer was a city located in the territory allotted to the tribe of Gad, east of the Jordan River. According to Numbers 32:34, the Gadites built Aroer, along with other cities in the region, after the conquest of the land under Moses' leadership.

    Aroer is mentioned in Joshua 13:25 as part of the description of Gad's territory, situated near the border with the Ammonites. The city is also noted in the account of Jephthah's victory over the Ammonites, where he is said to have struck them from Aroer to Minnith (Judges 11:33).

    During King David's reign, Aroer is mentioned in the context of the census he conducted, which began at Aroer and continued throughout the regions east of the Jordan (2Sa.24.5). The city was also the hometown of Shamgar, one of David's mighty men (1Ch.11.44).

    The prophet Isaiah mentions Aroer in his prophecy concerning Damascus, stating that the cities of Aroer will be forsaken (Isaiah 17:2). This suggests that Aroer, along with other cities in the region, would face judgment and desolation.

    Aroer's significance in the Bible lies in its association with the tribe of Gad and its location in the Transjordan region. The city's mention in various contexts, from the initial settlement of the land to the reigns of David and the prophetic messages, highlights its enduring presence throughout Israel's history.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    Stands in the same events as

    and 16 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    The pattern

    Where Aroer 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.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 7 verses across 6 of 66 books; 60 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA–JUDGES2 VERSESISAIAH1 VERSE43 books and 444 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 7 verses across 6 of 66 books; 60 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA–JUDGES2 VERSESISAIAH1 VERSE43 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Aroer is named in 7 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 60 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 7, across 6 books.

    1. Numbers1 verse

      32:34

    2. Joshua1 verse

      13:25

    3. Judges1 verse

      11:33

    4. 2 Samuel1 verse

      24:5

    5. 1 Chronicles2 verses

      5:811:44

    6. Isaiah1 verse

      17:2

    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.

    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

    Where they appear

    What happened here

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on