Aran

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

ARAN . Son of Dishan the Horite (  Genesis 36:28 ,   1 Chronicles 1:42 ), a descendant of Esau. The name denotes ‘a wild goat,’ and Dishan ‘an antelope’ or ‘gazelle’; while Seir the ancestor is ‘the he-goat.’

Smith's Bible Dictionary

A'ran. (Wild Goat). A Horite, son of Dishan and brother of Uz.  Genesis 36:28;  1 Chronicles 1:42.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Descendant of Seir the Horite.  Genesis 36:28;  1 Chronicles 1:42 .

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A Horite ( Genesis 36:28).

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Genesis 36:28

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Genesis 36:28

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ā´ran ( ארן , 'ărān , "wild goat"): A son of Dishan, the Horite ( Genesis 36:28;  1 Chronicles 1:42 ). It may possibly be connected with the Yerahmelite Oren (רן ), ' - ren' ( 1 Chronicles 2:25; compare Curtis, Chron . at the place; Dillmann, Gen at the place; ZDMG , L, 168); Robertson Smith claims that this name is equivalent to the Samaritan , ארן ('-r-n), "wild goat" ( Jour. Phil ., IX, 90). J. Jacobs translates it by "ass" ( Stud. Biblical Arch. , 71). This is one of the many totem names in the Bible. More than one-third of the Horites, the descendants of Seir, bear animal names, and those clans of the Edomites connected with the Horites also have animal names. The very name "Self" means a "he-goat," and Dishan, "a gazelle" ( Stud. Biblical Arch. , 70-72). Gray, however, remarks that "the instance (Aran) is most uncertain" ( HPN , 108).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Aran', אֲרָן , Wild Goat; Sept. Αράν , v. r. Ἀῤῥάν ), the second named of the two sons of Dishan, and grandson of Seir the Horite ( Genesis 36:28;  1 Chronicles 1:42). B.C. cir. 1963.