The hidden meaning of Arvanah's name

Shanah Tovah to everyone and have an easy fast.

A quick realization that I came to shortly before Mincha yesterday:

In Shmuel 2:24:18, David was commanded to build an altar in a place in Yerushalayim called 'Goren Arvanah ha'Yevusi (The Threshing Floor of Araunah the Jebusite)'. Since it was owned by Arvanah, David it bought it from him and built the altar. This story is also recounted in greater detail in Chronicles 1:21:18-28. Here Arvanah is called 'Ornan'. Subsequently, David decides that the Temple should be built there, and that project was completed by his son Shlomo (ibid. 2:3:1). In other words, this place would become the final dwelling place of the Ark of the Covenant.

Now here's what's really fascinating: The name Arvanah, as it's spelled in Shmuel - ארונה - is made up of the word ארון and the letter ה = the word 'Ark' and the letter Heh, one of the letters of the name of Hashem. I.e., the name Arvanah equals Aron H' ('ארון ה), the Ark of Hashem. But if you think that one letter doesn't count for symbolizing the name of Hashem, we have the ktiv (the way a word is spelled by not necessarily pronounced so) of one of the instances that the name appears in Shmuel - there it's spelled ארניה - Aranyah, which is comprised of Aran (ארן), a short-form of the word for Ark, ארון + one of the names of Hashem, י-ה - Y-ah.

In other words, a person whose name clearly refers to the Ark of the Covenant merited to house the Ark of the Covenant in his threshing floor!

Does this mean this wasn't really Arvanah's name? Perhaps. Perhaps Chronicles preserves the real name, Ornan. Hard to tell, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless.

Edit (4th of Tishrei 5783): As Alex pointed out in the comment section, a similar idea is brought in the Zohar (2:214):

"אֲמַאי אִקְרֵי אֲרַוְנָה. אֶלָּא כְּתִיב אֲרַוְנָה וּכְתִיב אָרְנָן. בְּעוֹד דְּהַהוּא אֲתָר הֲוָה תְּחוֹת יְדֵיהּ, אִקְרֵי אֲרַוְנָה אֲרוֹן דְּסִטְרָא אַחֲרָא. וְעַל דְּאִתּוֹסָפוּ בֵּיהּ אַתְוָון יַתִּיר, הָכִי אִצְטְרִיךְ (קס''ד ע''ב) לְאִתּוֹסְפָא לְהַהוּא רַע עַיִן, רָזָא דְּסִטְרָא אַחֲרָא, וְהַהוּא תּוֹסֶפֶת אִיהוּ גְּרִיעוּתָא לְגַבֵּיהּ."

Translation: "Why is he called Aravna? AND REPLIES: there is the name 'Aravna' and 'Ornan' (I Divrei Hayamim 21:15). [the reason is that] while the place was still in his possession, it was called 'Aravna (from Heb. aron lit. 'ark'), alluding to the ark of the Other Side. And as there are letters added, [Aravna instead of Aron], so there is an addition to the evil-eyed, which is the secret of the Other Side, for to him an addition is considered diminution."

Note the translators also noticed the etymological relationship between ארונה and ארון.

David purchasing Arvanah's threshing floor

(image taken from here)