Ar, Ar of Moab
Ar, Ar of Moab
ar, moab (, ar, , ar-mo’abh; , Er; , Aroer or , Seer): The city of Ar is named in a snatch of ancient song (Num 21:15), literally the site of Ar. It is identical with Ar of Moab (Num 21:28; Isa 15:1). This is probably the place called the City of Moab in Num 22:36, where the Hebrew is r mo’abh. It is probably also intended by the city that is in the middle of the valley (Deu 2:36; Jos 13:9, Jos 13:16; 2Sa 24:5). It lay on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border (Num 22:36). A possible identification might be the ruin noted by Burckhardt, in the floor of the valley, on a piece of pasture-land below the confluence of the Lejjun and the Mojib. Buhl however thinks that not a city but a Moabite district somewhere in the region south of the Arnon may be intended (GAP, 269).