Bible Names

Ariel: meaning of the name

Ariel means “altar; light or lion of God.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Ariel in Hebrew and Greek

אֲרִיאֵל H740

ʼĂrîyʼêl (ar-ee-ale') — Ariel, a symbolical name for Jerusalem, also the name of an Israelite

the same as H739 (אֲרִיאֵל);

Who named Ariel in the Bible

Places named Ariel

Ariel in Scripture

“Ariel” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • Ezra 8:16

    Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.

  • Isaiah 29:1

    Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.

  • Isaiah 29:2

    Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.

  • Isaiah 29:7

    And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.