In the bible, Ariel is the name of the of Moab (2SA 23:20), as well as name of Levite Ezra sent to Iddo (EZR 8:16). Meaning of the name: altar; light or lion of God. Related names are:
Jehoiada,
Benaiah, Kabzeel
(and others ...)
. The translations of Ariel in 24 languages of the Bible are illustrated in the
ichthys
below, from
Ariel in Spanish to
アリエル in Japanese!
Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding. (EZR 8:16)
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. (ISA 29:1)
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. (ISA 29:1)
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. (ISA 29:2)
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. (ISA 29:2)
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. (ISA 29:7)
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow: (2SA 23:20)