Ararat

Sacred land or high land, the name of a country on one of the mountains of which the ark rested after the Flood subsided (Gen. 8:4). The “mountains” mentioned were probably the Kurdish range of South Armenia. In 2 Kings 19:37, Isa. 37:38, the word is rendered “Armenia” in the King James Bible, but in the Revised Version, “Land of Ararat.” In Jer. 51:27, the name denotes the central or southern portion of Armenia. It is, however, generally applied to a high and almost inaccessible mountain which rises majestically from the plain of the Araxes. It has two conical peaks, about 7 miles apart, the one 14,300 feet and the other 10,300 feet above the level of the plain. Three thousand feet of the summit of the higher of these peaks is covered with perpetual snow. It is called Kuh-i-nuh, i.e., “Noah’s mountain”, by the Persians. This part of Armenia was inhabited by a people who spoke a language unlike any other now known, though it may have been related to the modern Georgian. About B.C. 900 they borrowed the cuneiform characters of Nineveh, and from this time we have inscriptions of a line of kings who at times contended with Assyria. At the close of the seventh century B.C. the kingdom of Ararat came to an end, and the country was occupied by a people who are ancestors of the Armenians of the present day.

Recorded scripture occurrences (2)

References recorded in the source data; this is not an exhaustive list of mentions.

Show passage in OET: GEN 8:4

OET-RV GEN 8:4

4 that by October the wooden chest was left sitting on one of the Ararat mountains.

OET-LV GEN 8:4

4 And_ the_box _it _rested in_month the_seventh on_the_seven- teen day of_month on the _mountains _of ʼArāraţ.

Show passage in OET: JER 51:27

OET-RV JER 51:27

27 Lift up a banner over the earth.
⇔ ≈ Blow the trumpet across the nations.
⇔ Call the nations to attack it: Ararat, Mini, and Ashkenaz.
⇔ Appoint a commander to attack it.
⇔ Bring in horses like swarming locusts.

OET-LV JER 51:27

27 Lift _up a _standard on _the_earth blow a _trumpet among_nations consecrate on/upon_it(f) nations summon on/upon_it(f) the _kingdoms _of ʼArāraţ Minniy and_ʼAshkənaz appoint on/upon_it(f) an _official bring _up horse[s] like_locust[s] bristly.

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