Ornan
or.nan identifies the Jebusite associated with the threshing floor David purchased for an altar.
The term is used as the personal name of the Jebusite connected with a threshing floor: David approaches him, purchases the site from him, and the same location is later named as the place where Solomon began building the house of the LORD.
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Personal name of the Jebusite at the threshing floor · dominant
In 1 Chronicles 21:20 the form is tagged Noun · Proper twice as the APB renders the man returning, seeing the messenger, and treading wheat. In 1 Chronicles 21:22 the same proper-noun use identifies the person from whom David requests the threshing-floor site, while 2 Chronicles 3:1 locates Solomon's building at that man's threshing floor.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the verses, the APB consistently presents the proper name as “Ornan,” often in the phrase “the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.” Its wording confirms the verse setting rather than supplying a separate lexical rendering.