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ARVAD, ARVADITE
Small fortified island about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) off the coast of Syria (ancient Phoenicia) and 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Tripolis. Arvad developed a large trading and fighting fleet, and the fame of its sailors was referred to in a description of the naval power of Tyre (Ez 27:8, 11). Egyptian records recount Arvad’s fall to Thutmose III about 1472 BC. Assyrian records indicate the importance of Arvad and its recurrent conquest by foreign powers from the 11th to the 7th centuries BC.
Arvad was later known as Aradus or Arados, and is referred to as such in 1 Maccabees 15:23. During the Persian and Hellenistic periods it was once again an important Mediterranean seaport, only to decline again. The Canaanite tribe of Arvadites (Gn 10:18; 1 Chr 1:16) possibly had an ethnic connection with the island Arvad. Today Arvad is known as Ruad.