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ARVAD (modern (Ruwâd) was the most important of the northerly cities of Phœnicia. It was built on an island 70 miles north of Beyrout—a sort of second Tyre, with another town on the mainland opposite. In Eze_27:8; Eze_27:11 it is named as furnishing oarsmen for the galleys of Tyre and warriors for its defence. In the ethnological list of Gen_10:18 (1Ch_1:16) it is mentioned among the chief settlements of the Canaanites or Phœnicians. Throughout antiquity it was a place of renown for trade and general enterprise, ranking next to Tyre and Sidon. It is the Aradus of 1Ma_12:53.
J. F. McCurdy.