Araunah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Araunah
     agile; also called Ornan 1 Chr. 21:15, a Jebusite who dwelt in
     Jerusalem before it was taken by the Israelites. The destroying
     angel, sent to punish David for his vanity in taking a census of
     the people, was stayed in his work of destruction near a
     threshing-floor belonging to Araunah which was situated on Mount


     Moriah. Araunah offered it to David as a free gift, together
     with the oxen and the threshing instruments; but the king
     insisted on purchasing it at its full price (2 Sam. 24:24; 1
     Chr. 21:24, 25), for, according to the law of sacrifices, he
     could not offer to God what cost him nothing. On the same place
     Solomon afterwards erected the temple (2 Sam. 24:16; 2 Chr.
     3:1). (See {ALTAR}.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Araunah, ark; song; joyful cry