Ar: meaning of the name

Ar in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Ar

• Ar

Ar in Scripture

“Ar” appears in 6 verses of the King James Version.

• Numbers 21:15

  And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.

• Numbers 21:28

  For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

• Deuteronomy 2:9

  And the Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.

• Deuteronomy 2:18

  Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:

• Deuteronomy 2:29

  (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God giveth us.

• Isaiah 15:1

  The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;