Bible Person
Meaning: long; great; tall · Male · 2 cross references
Arioch is the king of Ellasar named among the coalition rulers in Genesis 14. He belongs to the early Mesopotamian political world that intrudes into the patriarchal narrative. First appears in Gen 14:1.1
AI summary: Arioch matters because the cross references place him inside the multi-king alliance whose campaign draws Abram into military action for the rescue of Lot. His inclusion helps show that the patriarchal story unfolds within a wider landscape of competing powers rather than in isolation. Taken together, the material presents Arioch as a regional king whose part in the coalition helps frame the first war narrative connected to Abraham.1
Central Figure
Arioch
Meaning: long; great; tall
A king of Ellasar who was confederate with Chedorlamer (Gen.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.