Dict: smith - AROER

smith:

AROER - A>@ - (ruins). A city on the torrent Arnon, the southern point of the territory of Sihon king of the Amorites and afterwards of the tribe of Reuben, (2:36; kjv@3:12; 4:48; kjv@Joshua:12:2 kjv@Joshua:13:9 kjv@Joshua:13:16; kjv@Judges:11:26; kjv@2Kings:10:33; kjv@1Chronicles:5:8) but later again in possession of Moab. kjv@Jeremiah:48:19) It is the modern Ara’ir , upon the very edge of the precipitous north bank of the Wady Mojeb . Aroer, "that is ’facing’ Rahbah" (Rabbah of Ammon), a town built by and belonging to Gad. kjv@Numbers:32:34; kjv@Joshua:13:25; 2 Samuel 24:5) This is probably the place mentioned in kjv@Judges:11:33) which was shown in Jerome’s time. Aroer, in kjv@Isaiah:17:2) if a place at all, must be still farther north than either of the two already named. A town in Judah, named only in ( kjv@1Samuel:30:28) perhaps Wady Ar’arah , on the road from Petra to Gaza.

AROERITE - A>@ - Hothan the Aroerite was the father of two of David’s captains. ( kjv@1Chronicles:11:44)