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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Aran:

wild goat, a descendant of Seir the Horite (Gen 36:28).

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Aran:

an ark; their curse

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Aran:

a'-ran ('aran, "wild goat"): A son of Dishan, the Horite (Ge 36:28; 1Ch 1:42). It may possibly be connected with the Yerahmelite Oren ('-ren) (1Ch 2:25; compare Curtis, Chron. at the place; Dillmann, Ge at the place; ZDMG, L, 168); Robertson Smith claims that this name is equivalent to the Samaritan ('-r-n), "wild goat" (Jour. Phil., IX, 90). J. Jacobs translates it by "ass" (Stud. Biblical Arch., 71). This is one of the many totem names in the Bible. More than one-third of the Horites, the descendants of Seir, bear animal names, and those clans of the Edomites connected with the Horites also have animal names. The very name "Self" means a "he-goat," and Dishan, "a gazelle" (Stud. Biblical Arch., 70-72). Gray, however, remarks that "the instance (Aran) is most uncertain" (HPN, 108).

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Smith's Bible Dictionary

Aran:

(wild goat) a Horite, son of Dishan and brother of Uz (Genesis 36:28; 1 Chronicles 1:42).

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