ארון

From Proto-Semitic *ʾarān- or *ʾirān-. Cognate to Phoenician ⁧𐤀𐤓𐤍⁩ (ʾrn).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /aˈʁon/

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⁧אָרוֹן⁩ • (arón) m (plural indefinite ⁧אֲרוֹנוֹת⁩, singular construct ⁧אֲרוֹן־⁩)

1. A cupboard, closet, cabinet, or similar piece of furniture.

   ⁧איפה ארון הספרים?⁩ ― éifo arón ha-s'farím? ― Where is the bookcase?

2. A coffin or casket.
   • Tanach, Genesis 50:26, with translation of the King James Version:

     ⁧וַיָּמָת יוֹסֵף בֶּן־מֵאָה וָעֶשֶׂר שָׁנִים וַיַּחַנְטוּ אֹתוֹ וַיִּישֶׂם בָּאָרוֹן בְּמִצְרָיִם׃⁩

     vayamot yosef ben-me’a va'eser shanim vayakhantu oto vayisem baaron b'mitzrayim.

     So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

3. (military slang) One of the bars on the shoulders of Israeli military uniforms to indicate junior officer ranks (with more bars indicating a higher rank).

   ⁧המפקדת שלי קצינה עם שני ארונות, היא סגן.⁩

   ha-m’fakédet sheli k’tziná ‘im shnéi aronót, hi ségen.

   My commander is an officer who has two ‘closets’, she’s a lieutenant.

4. (slang, in definite forms) The metaphorical closet in which persons who are secretly LGBT are imagined to reside (as in English).

• This noun is sometimes vocalized as ⁧אָרוֹן⁩, sometimes as ⁧אֲרוֹן⁩. In either case, its pronunciation is the same in Modern Israeli Hebrew.

• ⁧אֲרוֹן הַבְּרִית⁩ (aron habrit, “Ark of the Covenant”)
• ⁧אֲרוֹן סְפָרים⁩ (aron sfarim)
• ⁧ארון קודש / אֲרוֹן קֹדֶשׁ⁩ ('arón kódesh)
• ⁧חֲדַר אֲרוֹנוֹת⁩ (khadár aronót)
• ⁧יָצָא מֵהָאָרוֹן⁩ (yatsá meha'arón)

• ⁧נורא⁩

From Hebrew ⁧ארון⁩ (arón).

⁧ארון⁩ m (Hebrew spelling, Latin spelling arón, plural ⁧ארונות⁩)

1. grave

⁧ארון⁩ • (orn) m

1. (nonstandard) Unpointed form of ⁧אָרון⁩ (orn).