🔼The name Ard in the Bible
The name Ard is assigned to one man in the Bible, although it looks like there are two. Ard is a son of Benjamin, son of Jacob and Rachel and brother of Naaman (Genesis 46:21) and Bela, Benjamin's first born. At the time when Moses and Eleazar conduct the second census of Israel, the families of Ard and Naaman (the ארדי; Ardites and the נעמי; Naamites) are collectively grouped under the sons of Bela (Numbers 26:40). This probably indicates that there was a sub-Benjaminite alliance of the biological sons of Bela and their cousins. Something similar occurs with Shem and Japheth, sons of Noah (Genesis 9:27), and Zerubbabel's two fathers.
🔼Etymology of the name Ard
The origins of the name Ard are a bit of a mystery, but — when we allow the letter א (aleph) to alternate with the letter ע (ayin), which occurs — it's possibly related to an Arabic verb meaning to flee: