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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Ararat
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Aaron Abarim Abed-nego Abel Abida Abigail Abimael Abinadab Abishai Abraham Abram Absalom Accad Adah Adam Admah Almodad Amalek(ite) Amasa Amminadab Amorite Amos Amram Anak (Anakim) Anamim Anem Aram Aramean Ararat Ari (Arie, Arieh) Ariel Arkite Arpachshad Arvadite Asahel Asenath Asher/ Asherah Ashkenash Asshur Asshurim Assyria |
Ararat
Ararat is the name of a mountain range, which is famous for being the site of the first ship wreck in history: the stranding of the Ark of Noah. Nowadays nobody knows for sure where the Ararat might be, but in the days of Hezekiah people still did, as the assassins of king Sennacherib of Assyriah were reported to have fled there (2 Ki 19:37). |
(har 517a) hill, mountain. And 2) 
(yarad 909) to go down, descend, march down. 
('arar 168), to curse; 
(retet 2156a), trembling, panic, and 
(rata 2155), wring out (Job 16:11), a word that, according to 
(yarat 914), precipitate, or be headlong, contrary (Numb 22:32, "...because your way is contrary to me." 
