Araunah

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Araunah (ārô`nə), in the Bible, Jebusite who sold his threshing floor to David so that an altar might be erected there. This site, on Mt. Moriah, was afterward used for the Temple. An alternate form is Ornan.

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In 2 Sam 24:18-25, David goes to the threshing floor of Araunah and there carries out a business transaction, purchasing that property as well as the animals for sacrifice.

Physical space, imagined space, and "lived space" in ancient Israel by Matthews, Victor H. / Biblical Theology Bulletin

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