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plural Aarons
The elder brother of Moses in the Book of the Exodus, and in the Quran. quotations examples
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and hee said, Is not Aaron the Leuite thy brother? I know that he can speake well.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Exodus 4:14
A male given name from Hebrew. quotations examples
- - - the Junior Prom with boys whose names are right out of the grade-school reader, not Aaron and Arnold and Marvin, but Johnny and Billy and Jimmy and Tod. Not Portnoy or Pincus, but Smith and Jones and Brown!
1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Random House, published 2002, page 145
A surname transferred from the given name. examples
(archaic, thieves' cant) The leader of a group of thieves.