a-rô´na (××¨×•× ×”, 'ărawnaÌ„h, , ; ××¨× ×™×”, 'ăranyaÌ„h , and ××¨× ×Ÿ, 'ornaÌ„n, ; , all from a Hebrew root meaning “to be strongâ€): A Jebusite from whom David at the request of the prophet Gad bought a threshing-floor located upon Mt. Moriah, as a site for an altar of the Lord at the time of the great plague (; ), upon which Solomon later erected the temple ().