n.

The satellite of Uranus that is 12th in distance from the planet.

[After Ariel, a mischievous sprite in The Tempest by William Shakespeare.]

(possibly meaning “lion of God” or “hearth of God”)

1. One of the chief men summoned by Ezra to bring “servants for the house of our God” before he departed from the river of Ahava to go to Jerusalem (Ezra 8:15-17, 31).
2. A name applied to Jerusalem by Isaiah, or in Ezekiel 43:15-16 to a cultic object, probably an altar hearth.

Concordance
ARIEL 1: Ezra 8:16
ARIEL 2: Is 29:1-2, 7

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(ā'rēĕl) , in the Bible, aide of Ezra. In two other passages AV calls them “lionlike men” (“two ariels of Moab” in RV). Nothing is known of them. Ariel is also used as a symbolic name of Jerusalem.

One of the two spirits supposed to have attended the seventeenth-century English writer on witchcraft, John Beaumont.

ariel	ariel vanity
ariel salon	swimming ariel