Lexicon apharesaye: official Original Word: אֲפָרְסָיֵאPart of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: apharesaye Phonetic Spelling: (af-aw-re-sah'ee) Short Definition: secretaries NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin(Aramaic) of foreign origin Definitionofficial NASB Translationsecretaries (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs אֲפָֽרְסָיֵא (K § 52, 2 d)) proper name, plural of a people Ezra 4:9, ᵐ5L Ἀφρασαῖοι, A Ἀφαρσαῖοι; Ges Lex. Man. Rö Thes. Add. 107 Hoffm ZA ii. 55 Mey Enst. J. 38 Persians; Dl Baer Ezr 60 Scheft 75 Parsua (in Media [see Streck ZA xv.308 ff.]; yet v. COT on the passage); Marquart 64 (א)סָֽרְַיָּא secretaries ( א dittograph of preceding); often identify. with following, so Andr M 53*. Strong's Apharsite (Aramaic) of foreign origin (only in the plural); an Apherasite or inhabitant of an unknown region of Assyria -- Apharsite. |
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