Person Old Testament
Arod
Also known as Arod =ESV, KJV; Arodi =NIV, Arodi, Arodite
Arod, son of Gad, was the founder of the Arodite clan (Gen.46.16; Num.26.17). Mentioned in 2 verses across 2 books, first at Genesis 46:16.
Why it matters. Son of Gad and founder of the Arodite clan
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Arod
Arod was a son of Gad and grandson of Israel (or 'Jacob'), listed among the 70 members of Jacob's family who moved to Egypt during the famine. He was the founder of the Arodite clan within the tribe of Gad. In the census taken in the wilderness, the Arodite clan numbered 40,500 men age 20 and up, showing God's fulfillment of his promise to make Abraham's descendants as numerous as the stars.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
- Parents
- Gad
Appears in Scripture
Named in 2 verses across 2 books. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.