Bible Names

Ararat: meaning of the name

Ararat means “the curse of trembling.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Ararat in Hebrew and Greek

אֲרָרַט H780

ʼĂrâraṭ (ar-aw-rat') — Ararat (or rather Armenia)

of foreign origin;

Places named Ararat

Ararat in Scripture

“Ararat” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 8:4

    And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

  • Jeremiah 51:27

    Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.