- ארון
- אָרוֹןc. (b. h.; ארן or ארי, √אר, cmp. ארגז, ארבא עריבה ) (joined together, chest, box, coffin, freq. (= אֲרוֹן הַקּוֹדֶש) the Holy Ark, in the tabernacle and the Temple, or in Synagogues. Yoma V, 1 הגיע לא׳ reached the place where the Ark stood during the First Temple. Y.Ber.IV, 8c top; Gen. R. s. 55 (allegorical etymologies).Keth.104a א׳ הקודש (figuratively) a good and learned mans soul; v. אֶרְאֵל.Kel. XII, 5 א׳ של גרוסות the grits-dealers chest. Y.Kil.IX, 32b top; Gen. R. s. 100 ותהא אֲרוֹנִי נקובה (נקופה)וכ׳ let my coffin be perforated at the bottom. Snh.98b אין לך כל א׳ וא׳וכ׳ there is no coffin in Palestine in which the Median horses do not eat straw (being used as cribs); a. fr.Pl. אֲרוֹנוֹת. Sot.13a; a. fr. Y.Keth.VI, 30d bot. וארון, v. אֲרִי I.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.