Encyclopedia of The Bible – Arah
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Arah

ARAH âr’ ə (אָרַ֥ח). 1. An Asherite; son of Ulla (1 Chron 7:39).

2. An ancestor of a family that returned from the Exile with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:5; Neh 7:10; 1 Esd 5:10 [KJV, ASV ARES]). The numbers of those who returned vary in these passages.

3. Joshua 13:4 should perhaps read me-’arah “from Arah.” Arah may be modern Khirbet ’Arah.