Aar·on

(âr′ən, ăr′-)

In the Bible, the elder brother of Moses who helped lead the Hebrews out of Egypt.

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Aaron

(ˈɛərən)

(Bible) Old Testament the first high priest of the Israelites, brother of Moses (Exodus 4:14)

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Aar•on

(ˈɛər ən, ˈær-)

n.

1. the older brother of Moses, usu. regarded as the first high priest of the Hebrews. Ex. 28; 40:13–16.

2. Henry Louis ( “Hank” ), born 1934, U.S. baseball player.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	Aaron - United States professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934) Hank Aaron, Henry Louis Aaron
	2.	Aaron - (Old Testament) elder brother of Moses and first high priest of the Israelites; created the golden calf Old Testament - the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible

Translations

هارون

Aron

Aaron

Ααρών

Aarón

Aaron

AaroAaron

Aaron

Áron

Harun

Aronne

Aaron

Aronas

Aäron

Aron

Aaron

Aarão

Аарон Ааронов Арон

Aron

Harun

Aaron

[ˈɛərən] N → Aarón

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This good wholesome woman could hardly fail to have her mind drawn strongly towards Silas Marner, now that he appeared in the light of a sufferer; and one Sunday afternoon she took her little boy Aaron with her, and went to call on Silas, carrying in her hand some small lard-cakes, flat paste-like articles much esteemed in Raveloe.

Dolly sighed gently as she held out the cakes to Silas, who thanked her kindly and looked very close at them, absently, being accustomed to look so at everything he took into his hand--eyed all the while by the wondering bright orbs of the small Aaron, who had made an outwork of his mother's chair, and was peeping round from behind it.

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But even he felt a pang of incongruity when he was knocked up at daybreak and told that Sir Aaron Armstrong had been murdered.

Sir Aaron Armstrong, as he boisterously explained, had no nerves.

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'If Mr Aaron,' said Eugene, who soon found this fatiguing, 'will be good enough to relinquish his charge to me, he will be quite free for any engagement he may have at the Synagogue.

'Good evening, Mr Aaron,' said Eugene, politely; 'we need not detain you.' Then turning to Lizzie, 'Is our friend Mr Aaron a little deaf?'

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It was merely necessary to transport it from the hotel to the house in Aaron's Buildings.

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"They are over a hundred years old, and they have sat on either side of this fireplace ever since my brother Aaron brought them from London fifty years ago.

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Here, too, is part of Aaron's rod, and a lock of hair from Elisha the prophet."

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At Drake's or Aaron's one pays twenty-five lire for common days, and thirty or thirty-five lire a day more for Sundays and feast days; add five lire a day more for extras, that will make forty, and there's an end of it."

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"It's like the choice ointment, From the head to the beard did go; Down Aaron's head, that downward went His garment's skirts unto."

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Should kings and nations from thy mouth consult, Thy counsel would be as the oracle Urim and Thummim, those oraculous gems On Aaron's breast, or tongue of Seers old Infallible; or, wert thou sought to deeds That might require the array of war, thy skill Of conduct would be such that all the world Could not sustain thy prowess, or subsist In battle, though against thy few in arms.

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