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Strong's #6166 - עֲרָד
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Arad = “a wild ass”
1) a Benjamite, son of Beriah, who drove out the inhabitants of Gath (noun proper masculine)
2) a royal city of the Canaanites north of the wilderness of Judah (noun proper locative)
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ascend, II. bend, incline toward (
); 
high, elevated; Ethiopic 
ascend; Late Hebrew עֲרוּגָה = Biblical Hebrew); — Qal Imperfect 3 feminine singular תַּעֲרֹג Psalm 42:2 (of stag, with עַל of thing in simile); with אֶל, of longing for God Psalm 42:2 (subject נַפְשִׁי), so תַּעֲרוֺג Joel 1:20 (of beasts, craving water).
I. עֲרָד proper name, of a location Canaanite city in the Negeb, Αραδ (Egyptian ±a- Ruth -dâ WMM As.u.Eur.168,170); — Judges 1:16, ׳מֶלֶחעֿ Numbers 21:1 (JE) = Numbers 33:40, Joshua 12:14 (D, Α(ι)ραθ, A ᵐ5 L Αδερ); probably modern Tel Arad, 16 2-Janmiles south of Hebron; compare GFM Judges 1:16 Buhl Geogr. 182.
II. עֲרָד proper name, masculine Benjamite 1 Chronicles 8:15, Ωρηρ, A Αρωδ, ᵐ5 L Αραδ.
עֲרָד [Arad], pr.n.
(1) (for בֵּית עֲרָד), a town of the Canaanites, in the southern part of Palestine, Numbers 21:1, 33:40 Joshua 12:14 [situated apparently at Tel ʾAr̯d تل عراد Rob. ii. 473].
(2) m. 1 Chronicles 8:15.
עֲרָד m. Ch. i.q. עָרוֹד wild ass, Daniel 5:21.
