Hero
אֶרְאֵלStrong’s H0691erel (er-el)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Erel is the Hebrew word usually translated “valiant one their”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.”
Meaning
- (CLBL) hero, valiant one
- (BDB) form and meaning uncertain
- (TWOT) Ariel or hearth
How it's translated
- valiant one their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אֶרְאֵל erel · hero
1) (CLBL) hero, valiant one 2) (BDB) form and meaning uncertain 3) (TWOT) Ariel or hearth
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hero” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HE'RO, noun
[Latin heros; Gr. a demigod.]
- A man of distinguished valor, intrepidity or enterprise in danger; as a hero in arms.
- A great, illustrious or extraordinary person; as a hero in learning. [Little used.]
- In a poem, or romance, the principal personage, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid.
- In pagan mythology, a hero was an illustrious person, mortal indeed, but supposed by the populace to partake of immortality, and after his death to be placed among the gods.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.