Bible Person

Arah

Meaning: the way; a traveler · Male · 2 cross references

Arah is the ancestral or house-name of a returnee family named in Ezra and Nehemiah. It belongs to the many households through which post-exilic Jerusalem is repopulated and stabilized. First appears in Ezra 2:5.1

AI summary: Arah matters because the cross references place this house within the foundational return lists after Babylon. Though no single narrative scene is attached, the family is part of the communal reality that makes restoration concrete rather than symbolic. Taken together, the material presents Arah as a returnee house contributing to the rebuilding of Judah's population and identity.1

Central Figure

Arah

Meaning: the way; a traveler