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Meaning and etymology of the names Arod and Arodi
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Arod  , Arodi 
The name Arod occurs just once in the Bible and is assigned to a son of Gad, son of Jacob and Zilpah (Numbers 26:17). Actually, in Genesis 46:16 we learn that his original name is (Arodi), but in Hebrew the name Arodi is indistinguishable from the gentilicum Arodite. By the time Moses and Eleazar conduct the census of Israel, the family of Arodi has collectively become known as the Arodites, and the name of their ancestor has become Arod.
It's a mystery where the name Arod comes from. Alfred Jones (Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names) takes it from a related Arabic verb meaning to flee, or a Syriac verb meaning to be untamed, and reads Wild Ass (see the name Arad). This apparently common Semitic root may even have survived in the Bible as the Hebrew verb  (rud) meaning to wander or roam (Genesis 27:40, Hosea 12:1).
NOBS Study Bible Name List seems to tap into a completely other range of words (or languages) and reads Hunchbacked. This may or may not be the meaning in some other language but not in Hebrew, where the word for hunchback is  (giben - Leviticus 21:20).
Other related names are
Ard,
Ardon,
Arvad(ite),
Aridai,
Aridatha and possibly
Herod,
Herodias and
Herodion.
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