Ariel

The name means “Altar Hearth of God; or Lion of God.”
There are six mentions of that name on the Bible.
Ariel is primarily used as a male name in Scripture.

A mighty warrior of David’s.
Ezra 8:16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.

Seems to refer to a city; (another name for Jerusalem)
Isaiah 29:1-2 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
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saiah 29:7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

A Moabite whose two sons were killed by Benaiah (2 Samuel 23:20-22)

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