Araunah or Ornan

The story of God being displeased with David counting his soldiers and bringing a plague on Israel is found in both 2 Samuel 24 and 1 Chronicles 21. David was told to build an altar and offer a sacrifice at a threshing floor on Mount Moriah where the temple was ultimately built. However, in 2 Samuel the owner of the threshing floor is named Araunah and in 1 Chronicles his name is Ornan. Those seem like very different names. What was his name really? Did he have two different names? The answer comes when we realize that the Hebrew alphabet only contains consonants. In the middle ages, vowel symbols were added to help readers pronounce the words. Apparently different scribes added different vowels to the names. The name in 2 Samuel is 'RWNH or 'RUNH in Hebrew; the name in 1 Chronicles is 'RNN, where the apostrophe stands for a glottal stop. When we realize that the W was probably serving as a u-sound, the only real difference in the names are the endings. But this happens all the time in our own English language. Kenneth becomes Kenny or the short form Ken. William becomes Willy or Will or even Billy or Bill. James becomes Jim, and Jacob becomes Jake. So the alternation between an H or an N at the end of the name should not at all be surprising. It is the adding of different vowel markers in the middle ages that make the names look so different.