Man living at the time of Divided Monarchy
Ara was a descendant of Asher, mentioned in the genealogy of the tribe of Asher.
🗺 Places mentioned alongside Ara on the map →
Ara is mentioned in the genealogy of the tribe of Asher, found in 1Chronicles 7. He is listed as one of the sons of Jether, who was a descendant of Asher through his son Beriah. The genealogy provides a record of the families and clans within the tribe of Asher, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Apart from this mention in the genealogical list, no further information is given about Ara in the biblical text.
More background: search Wikipedia ↗
(lion), one of the sons of Jether, the head of a family of Asherites. (1 Chronicles 7:88)
A'RA (lion), head of a branch of the house of Asher. 1 Chr 7:38.
A'RA (lion), head of a branch of the house of Asher. 1 Chr 7:38.
Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.
1 verse in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H0690
The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.
Names, family links and references: STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Short descriptions were drafted with AI assistance by STEPBible. Family links follow STEPBible’s scholarly decisions where genealogies are ambiguous.