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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

a-re'-li ('ar'eli, apparently the gentilic form of a compound that would mean "God's lioness," or "God's hearth"): One of the sons of Gad the son of Jacob (Ge 46:16; Nu 26:17). "Arelites" (which see) is exactly the same word.