Arah

2 verses

Ezra

The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.

Nehemiah

For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.

From Smith's Bible Dictionary

William Smith, 1884

(wayfaring).

(1.) An Asherite, of the sons of Ulla. (1 Chronicles 7:39)

(2.) The sons of Arah returned with Zerubbabel in number 775 according to (Ezra 2:5) but 652 according to (Nehemiah 7:10) (B.C. 536.) One of his descendants, Shechaniah, was the father-in-law of Tobiah the Ammonite. (Nehemiah 6:18)