STRONGS NUMBER H691


Word Summary
erel: perhaps a hero
Original Word: אֶרְאֵל
Transliteration: erel
Phonetic Spelling: (er-ale')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: perhaps a hero
Meaning: perhaps a hero
Strong's Concordance
valiant one

Probably for 'ariy'el; a hero (collectively) -- valiant one.

see HEBREW 'ariy'el

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H691. erel

[אֶרְאֵל‎] noun [masculine] (form & meaning dubious see below) — only in אֶרְאֶלָּםIsaiah 33:7; Ges אַרְאֵלִםheroes; compare Thes Kn Che; Hi אֲרִאֵלָם‎; compare De, who derives from אֲרִיאֵל‎, literally = lion of God, collective with suffix, & translated their heroes; name, of a people from אֲרִיאֵל‎ = Zion NbrAth. 1886, p. 400 compare Sayib. 466; Ew אַרְאָל‎ = אַרְעָלtrembling, compare Di. Brd proposes הילילו‎ 'cry pitifully.' ᵑ9 ᵑ6‎ and others read some form of ירא ᵐ5 ראה,‎. Wholly uncertain.

II. ארה‎ (burn, compare Arabic , whence hearth; Ew§ 163 g and others see below)