There is certainly one person in the Bible named Ariel and that is one among the leaders who

are sent to Iddo by Ezra, to ask for temple ministers (8:16-17). Some translations mention an Ariel in either 2 Samuel 23:20 or 1 Chronicles 11:22 but that is dubious (see below). In Isaiah 29:1-8 the name Ariel is applied to Jerusalem. The name Ariel is a compound of the Hebrew words (ari), meaning lion or gatherer of food from the verb (arah), to collect, to gather food (see the name Ari), and the name (El), the common abbreviation of Elohim. The The in 1 Most of the (Green, beiden Ariel in 2 This or [=most Hebrew name Ariel means Lion Of God. occurrence of the name Ariel or word ariel Chronicles 11:22 is subject to some transla- tions go with a translation word in stead of a transliteration of the KJV: two lionlike men of Moab; SchlachGotteslwen Moabs; NBG twee grote helden [=heroes] van of Moab, with two lion-like heroes in a footnote). The reason Samuel 23:20, except that the familiar word (ariel) is now spelled found debate. name ter: Moab; for all this without

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Hebrew word (arel) returns in Isaiah 33:7 only, where it is commonly transvariants thereof (NAS: brave men; KJV: valiant ones; Green: heroes; Schlachter: Helden; strong ones]; NBG: herauten [=heralds]).

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The name Ariel with which Isaiah endows Jerusalem in 29:1-8 may mean Lion of God, but it may also mean something more gruesome. Some linguists have derived this instance of the name Ariel from the word , altar or alter-hearth, which is used by Ezekiel in 45:15-16 (who in turn also uses a unique variant once in v 15). It is said that the word is a noun derived from an assumed Hebrew verb (arah), which via-via may be related to an Arabic verb to burn. The post-fixed letter lamed is blamed on a so-called afformative, although it is not clear what exactly it forms. http://www.channelstv.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ariel-Sharon1.jpg Something that none of the sources mentions is that the Hebrew verb (arah), to collect or gather, specifically of food, is readily applied to an incinerator of sorts; there is no need for an additional verb that means to burn. The relationship between the ariel of Isaiah 29 and Ezekiel 43 suggests the nature of the woe that would strike Jerusalem, as HAW Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament attests, Israel shall become, under the judgment of God, an Ariel, an altar hearth, that is, the scene of a holocaust. http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Ariel.html#.Ul8nnGTk_ R0