ארון

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

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

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

   ‏איפה ארון הספרים?‎‎ ― eifo aron ha-s'farim? ― Where is the bookcase?

2. A coffin or casket.
   • c. 1000–500 BCE, Genesis 50:26, with translation of the King James Version:

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

     vayamat yosef ben-mea 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 rank (with more bars indicating a higher rank).
4. (slang, in definite forms) The metaphorical closet in which persons who are secretly GLBT 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”)

• 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).